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...Thanks to MySpace, you can learn a candidate's star sign and "body type" - but is this cyber meet-and-greet really the boon for democracy that enthusiasts claim it to be? Many MySpace entries tend to be of the "Go, big Kevvie!" variety. Kelly thinks even this exchange is worthwhile. "It's more about the connection than about what you communicate," she says...
...likely to filter down to gas pumps and home heating-oil tanks just as voters begin choosing presidential nominees, which presents a rare chance to force this uncomfortable issue to the top of the political agenda. And in fact we may be better at tackling this problem than we tend to believe, as Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, points...
...dreamer; he made heroes of kings and princes. Middleton's work was more rooted in reality. His heroes (or, rather, antiheroes) are regular folk in extraordinary situations: merchants, con men and lonely housewives. Nowhere is that more evident than in the way he treats women. In Shakespeare, they tend to be "neatly categorizable as virgins or sluts or Madonnas or monsters," says Celia Daileader, a professor at Florida State University who annotated the comedy A Mad World, My Masters for The Collected Works. By contrast, the women in Middleton are as complicated as they are in real life. "He gives...
...Though the council passes the budget for the School Committee, most city politicians tend to shy away from taking strong positions on schools issues...
Thus, perhaps ironically, American Gangster, Steve represents an improvement on gangster myth. In truth, crime kingpins tend to lead long lives, interrupted by a little jail time (Frank's life sentence was commuted to 15 years). It is also improved by the fact that Crowe's bumptious character comes to enjoy the man's company, even becoming his attorney when he leaves law enforcement. It's the old Dostoyevskian bit about cop and crook being brothers under the skin. In the film, the only truly loathsome villain is a crooked cop, Detective Trupo, played with wonderful brutality by Josh Brolin...