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...story, Guerin is threatened, shot at and severely beaten before finally fingering untouchable kingpin John Gilligan. We know the ending too well: on June 26, 1996, while waiting at a traffic light, she is gunned down. Veronica Guerin may not have been bulletproof or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but for many in Ireland, she is a real-life superhero. But unlike, say, the Hulk, Guerin needs more than special effects to bring her legend to the big screen. Blanchett does a wonderful job of paying homage to the woman behind the headlines - joyfully brandishing Guerin...
...seen him once before that summer of 1999, several months earlier. He had stood 12 feet tall, on a movie screen in San Francisco, taking his unlikely star turn as himself in Wim Wender's documentary about the Buena Vista Social Club, the band that a year earlier had won Segundo a Grammy and generally elevated him and a handful of his compatriots from obscure relics of Cuba's golden age to international superstars, icons of the newly rediscovered grace and warmth behind the iron veil of the Cuban embargo...
...hate fat people. Or least I did, up until about six weeks ago. My utter annoyance with the obese seems—like obesity itself—to be inherited. Except for petite and pudgy me, everyone else in my immediate family is tall and exceedingly trim. And, as if our disgust with the overfed were genetically predetermined, we have all had run-ins. Take my brother, for example, who while spending the summer on his college campus at University of California at San Diego (a hub for summer teen overweight camps), found a cruel humor in luring...
...crisscrossed with the footprints of foreigners who went there with the glorious dream of ruling a kingdom in the forest, like the hero of a Conrad tale. Most of them end up hustling condos in Phuket or Bali, or eventually head home for a real job. Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today, Purser rules...
Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in L.A.’s competitive coffee market. Throughout the rest of America, Starbucks pretty much has the coffee-to-go scene sewn up. If you want a good double tall skim latte in Cambridge or Columbus, Ohio, you’ll soon head for those familiar green-and-white signs. And to my mind there is absolutely nothing shameful about that. Those pseudo-socialists who rail against Starbucks for being “corporatist”—in other words, clean—are deeply tedious, as University...