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...nurse's voice. One of the patient's arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other. And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying go at the VAS. But dutifully she administered. Protocol...
...script, by Lu Wei, who also worked on Zhang's To Live and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, nicely arranges the vectors of comradeship and competition, power and conscience. Zhou Xiaowen's direction is on the stolid side, but his coaxes his lead actors into giving superb performances, full of the intelligent fury the material demands. This is a movie headed for tragedy (the warlord orders Jianli blinded by the fumes of horse urine!), and by the end two of the three are dead. The lieutenant, driven mad with jealousy on hearing of Yueyang's affair with Jianli, murders...
...required signatures would deter potential candidates (what’s another couple hours hanging outside a dining hall?)—the end of deterring candidates is itself undesirable. Multiple tickets are important for the UC elections, injecting unconventional, innovative ideas into what otherwise can too easily deteriorate into stolid, insular debates. The competition allows issues and platforms to come to light that might otherwise be neglected in the dialogue of just a couple mainstream candidates. When the candidate pool is thick, minority viewpoints are given a voice and the most fundamental issues can be brought to light and discussed?...
...been slow to seize its opportunities, and Brown's time as mayor has been a test of whether even that can be changed. When he was elected in 1998, he successfully led an effort to restructure Oakland's government and give the mayor new powers to break through a stolid municipal bureaucracy. Since then, he fired his city manager and two city planners, replacing them with people who worked harder to lure private investment. As he tours through a booming residential area south of downtown, he sounds a little dismayed by how resistant some Oakland residents remain to change...
After reading “The Da Vinci Code,” I discovered that Brown, a former English teacher, is a creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...