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...more notable for its delicate juggling of flattery, force and debating skills; the boy is studying to be a lawyer. And all the time Anais watches, as if taking notes for the day (she hopes) when she too will have a man to play with, to treat her roughly, to ruin her. Fat Girl could be a compendium of Hollywood teen movies--it is by turns a story of sisterhood, a coming-of-age comedy and a horror tragedy--if it weren't so tres, tres Breillat. Which, this time, means brilliant...
Furthermore, the way America treats Afghanistan will be taken as an indication of the way we will treat other failed states in the future. If we abandon the country after locating Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda, the world will assume that we have no other goal than our immediate self-interest. The U.S. must show that it is genuinely concerned about the fate of the Afghan people, and the only way to do that is to strongly support, in both word and deed, the U.N.’s efforts to rebuild Afghanistan...
...have hindered access to abortion services and threaten the lives of those dedicated to ensuring a woman’s right to choose. We should pay more attention to attempts by extreme pro-lifers to derail this nation’s open, free society. Let’s not treat our women like the Taliban treats theirs...
...true treat of the night, though, remains Gray’s Engineer. From the first moment he appears on stage, he is in absolute command. Gray deftly uses his steely and expressive baritone to give life to a character who is desire incarnate. Strutting, preening, cajoling, even begging, he radiates charisma, as well as a sad sort of desperation that the character is unaware he possesses. A lesser actor might be inclined to soften the character and play him as a pimp with a heart of gold. Gray, though, avoids all of the character’s traps, forging ahead...
Witness, for example, MIT economics professor Paul Krugman’s recent rant in The New York Times. Krugman begins with the smug declaration that Bush’s strategy is to treat crises not as “problems to be solved,” but as “opportunities to advance an agenda that [has] nothing to do with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks...