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...even here the filmmakers locate some saving wit. When she and her lethal purse are in a showdown with a jungle beast, on the soundtrack we hear Ennio Morricone's theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but played by a Klezmer band. That's the peril and pleasure of vaudeville movies: You've got to stay alert for the next deranged, privileged moment...
...need leaders brave enough to practice astringency, telling people what they don't want to hear. But his example of a leader who was great because he was astringent - Winston Churchill - never won an election through astringency. Throughout the 1930s, when he was warning of the Nazi peril, he was almost uniformly rejected as a crank. He was not elected Prime Minister in 1940; rather, he was installed by a Parliament that deferred general elections until after the war. And when one was finally held, in 1945, the British people promptly voted Churchill out of office. We need not only...
...Americans believe gays should be able to serve openly in the military, up from 44% in 1993. Republicans already have a long-term demographic problem, with the country getting browner and minorities flocking to the Democrats. The GOP will be able to gin up its base with gay-marriage peril for only so long before they have a tolerance problem...
...moment of obvious peril, America decided to place its fate in the hands of a man who had been born to an idealistic white teenage mother and the charismatic African grad student who abandoned them - a man who grew up without money, talked his way into good schools, worked his way up through the pitiless world of Chicago politics to the U.S. Senate and now the White House in a stunningly short period. That achievement, compared with those of the Bushes or the Kennedys or the Roosevelts or the Adamses or any of the other American princes who were born...
...Analysts say government officials are trying to keep a wave of business failures in the property sector from engulfing the larger domestic economy. Commercial and residential real estate markets in Japan are slumping, and with banks reluctant to lend, developers, contractors and other property companies are increasingly in peril. On Oct. 9, New City Residence Corp., a real estate investment trust, went bust, becoming the first REIT to fail since the trusts were allowed to sell stock to the public. "Property developers could face more bankruptcies if banks continue their severe attitude," says Masahiro Mochizuki, a REIT analyst at Credit...