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...with a bent back made his way down the sidewalk with the help of a walnut cane. He was carrying a heavy metal folding chair, which had helped him through his two-hour wait to vote at St. James United Methodist Church, one of the city's largest "Freedom Ward" polling places. He wore a kufi of African mudcloth design and a watch chain dangled from his trouser pocket. He had a hike of a mile and a half still ahead of him. "People walk further than that to vote in other countries - Americans are too soft," said Harry...
...Changeling” moves beyond the heart-rending concept of a mother’s love for her son and soon evolves into a fight for justice and a mysterious case of missing children. The intrigue is heightened by the addition of several unknowns—a psychiatric ward, an LAPD as callous and corrupt as it is lazy, and a mechanic just a tad touched in the head—but we are nonetheless treated to Jolie repetitively screaming with varying degrees of despair, outrage, and panic for her son. Were Jolie an actress of lesser talent...
...Still, central bankers around the world, in an effort to ward off the worst effects of a global economic slowdown, appear to be engaging in a rate race to the bottom. China on Oct. 29 cut its interest rates for the third time in six weeks, and the BOJ is expected to cut its key policy rate below the current 0.5% soon. Though rates in Japan are already almost nil, Tokyo's hand is to an extent being forced by Washington. That's because as U.S. rates fall, fewer investors are willing to hold U.S. dollar debt, which undermines...
...that explodes into a fight. Rock and roll on the soundtrack. A headlong, hand-held shot preceding the two fighters as one tries to escape down the sidewalk and the other chases him, hitting him with a pole. A high-angle view from across the street of the Eighth Ward Social Club ... It is remarkable that a director would set out his agenda so clearly, almost instinctively, at the start of his career...
...Donovan), dismisses Christine's evidence of differences between the two boys: this one is a few inches shorter, his dental records don't match Walter's, his teacher doesn't recognize him... and he's been circumcised! When Christine presses her objections, Jones has her confined to the psychopathic ward of the Los Angeles Hospital, in the company of other women with the potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader...