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...years later, we have a butterfly infestation: movies and TV are obsessed with stories about the random connections among vast, multinational and multilingual casts of strangers. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar for a story of multicultural Angelenos brought into conflict by circumstance. This year Babel has Oscar buzz for spinning a wider web: an American couple vacationing in Morocco; the goatherd boy who, testing a new rifle by firing it at the tourists' bus, hits the wife; the couple's nanny, who takes their children on a disastrous day trip to Mexico; and the deaf Japanese girl improbably connected...
DAWKINS: People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable. Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified theory will eventually show that they are as locked in as the circumference and the diameter of a circle. That reduces...
...vast majority of the Americans that Borat meets, despite some fairly staggering failings, are polite almost to a fault (New York City pedestrians excepted). People indulge his nonsensical, offensive, and otherwise non sequitur comments, often responding to even the most ridiculous statements with a tactful “well, we really don’t do things like that over here...
...sticky point in black artistry is explored downstairs on floor 2R in a vast collection of “blaxploitation” film posters, some of which are from Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s private collection...
...Head's equating romance novels with pornography has become the flashpoint of the race. The Democrat's description of Republican opponent Susan Combs as a "pornographic book writer" because she wrote one romance novel 26 years ago has set off an outcry not just in Texas, but throughout the vast community of writers and readers who have been quick to come to the defense of the genre...