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...deeply saddened today to learn about the death of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. My deepest condolences go out to the family and supporters of this remarkable woman, an individual who paid the ultimate price for her embrace of moderation and rejection of extremism." JOHN McCAIN...
...Muslim woman leader, Bhutto was almost an iconic figure in the West. But her actual career in office was one of great populist spectacles and little governmental achievement. It was a personna she parlayed. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME in the mid-1990s. "No leader, no dictator could do what I have done...
...know if that is a pure or an impure fiction, but it does not strike me as an entirely implausible sequence. I don't know if the composition of Tolson's team, as portrayed here, is entirely accurate either, since it carefully includes a brave and pretty woman (Jurnee Smollett) and a troubled, studly male (Nate Parker) for her to fall in love with. But it is true that the juvenile on the team (Denzel Whitaker) really was, as the film states, James T. Farmer, who grew up to be the founder of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality...
...retribution, she for the sick fun. Bonham Carter, though, is a figure of crafty scorn, and nearly as misanthropic as her demon lover. Ill fortune has ground him down; for her, it's the long slog of surviving among London's lower and criminal classes. The woman's dreamy side surfaces only in her number "By the Sea," where she envisions a retirement idyll. But her dreams take her only so far: Sweeney frowns through the entire reverie. He'll be a part of no one's fantasies but his own. Eventually, Mrs. Lovett's destiny will be the same...
Washington was also greeted after the event by Mildred Boutin Prothrow, a 1941 graduate of Wiley College. The 90-year-old woman, wearing her college colors, said she personally knew each of the film's protagonists. "They were pretty much the same in real life," she said...