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...What we tried to do was make something a little more tragic in nature, in which the fates, in which the system at large, was dictating the characters' behavior and people had much less of a role in determining their own fate. This is something, of course, that can be quite frustrating for a viewer because you watch Mark Wahlberg and he spends the movie going, "This is excellent," as he chews his food. But he's really a sad guy. But that's something that I like. I knew people like that growing up, and they're either dead...
...ranks of the wealthy or the socially conservative have simply been duped by a spurious devotion to personality over politics, the effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate Conservatism...
...normalizing everything, from group sex to bestiality to darker things that decency forbids mentioning. And as for pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could have spent his years ensconced in front of a glowing computer screen, with a thousand Lolitas for his delectation...
...telephone interview, attorney John Swomley, who represents both Hurston and Scott, said that he was pleased to have Ogletree involved. "Ogletree will work on some trial and media strategy," Swomley said, calling Hurston's situation "tragic." Commenting on Hurston's involvement with the Pierce stabbing, he said Hurston "has nothing to do with...
...Firestone may bear some blame for the crashes associated with their products. But what about the drivers? Both tread separation and rollover are more likely at high speeds. Remembering all the SUVs that have sailed past me as I drove the speed limit, I wonder how many of those tragic crashes occurred at illegal speeds. ROBERT EBERHART Port Matilda...