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...King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when...
...Your story noted that statistician Enrico Giovannini is upset that people question official European inflation statistics; he claims that people have some "terrible problems of perception." Is it possible he has lost touch with reality? He is welcome to stay in my house for a month and do some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach-we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided to do without a summer holiday in nearby...
...European Union and the U.S. have had little effect. Mugabe has demonstrated time and again that he is prepared to destroy the country rather than give up power. South Africa, the big brother of the region, is the key to change. But President Thabo Mbeki has been afraid to touch Mugabe, who is still seen as a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle in southern Africa. Among the poor and landless in South Africa, Mugabe's seizure of white farms went down well. Afraid of lighting a fire in his own country, Mbeki sits on his hands and will take...
Upon reading Michael Duffy's "Cheney in Twilight," I realize how out of touch the media seem to be. I am no fan of Cheney's, but his vice presidency has been a political footnote. Only the media are hyping the Libby story. Compared with the scandals of the Clinton Administration, this one seems mild. It's barely a blip on most Americans' radar screen...
Freshmen, your future—whether in the form of a fist of arrows, three bunnies, or a tree—awaits. Run to your new house and meet some upperclassmen! Fate has spoken; all that’s left is for you to get in touch with your inner artist, your inner jock, or the piece of the Radcliffe Quadrangle that?...