Word: unkindnesses
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Only Menino--a close Grogan colleague who deeply respects his work--had any unkind words about the book...
...unkind world of hijacking, a captain isn't supposed to go down with his ship - if anything, he's required to do his best to jump ship, because it can't go anywhere without him. Four senior crewmen escaped from a hijacked Afghan Boeing 727 on a London runway overnight Tuesday, after climbing out of the cockpit while their captors' backs were turned. Although some nine crew members remain on board with 156 hostages, it's uncertain whether any of them is able to fly the plane. But despite an hour of furious silence, the hijackers soon resumed negotiations with...
...rocker in painfully tight leather, whose music marries Alice Cooper to Tracy Chapman, splits Government Center with the occasional trio of starving violinists from the New England Conservatory. The would-be blues guitarist battles an aging Rastafarian below Harvard Square. All create a soothing din amidst the T's unkind acoustics...
...devilish grin sneak across his face as if to say: ooh! that was fun. Trouble is, Lester's target (adeptly played by Bening) is so easy and his blow so gratuitous that one can't help feeling that he isn't being defiant and rebellious, but merely willfully unkind. It would be a little less unsettling to watch if it didn't feel as if the director Mendes got off on Lester's meanness, and expected...
August is the cruelest month in Russian politics, a month that recalls low points like the 1991 coup attempt and last year's economic collapse. But this August, Yeltsin's final one in the Kremlin, has been particularly unkind. The Swiss are still probing, while Islamic separatists drag Russia yet again into the Caucasus quagmire and regional chieftains from St. Petersburg to Tatarstan hunger for a bigger slice of the federal powers. Yeltsin's final year was supposed to be dedicated to dignified business: handing over the Kremlin to an heir sworn to reforming Russia. He may yet succeed...