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...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...
...attacks through an ETA prism. The Feb. 29 arrest of the alleged ETA operatives with their vanload of explosives was not the only recent attempt foiled by Spanish police. Last Christmas Eve, Spanish police foiled an attempt by two ETA operatives to blow up a train bound for another of Madrid's major train stations, Chamartin. They caught one trying to put a suitcase packed with 62 lbs. of the explosive Titadine on the train before it left and later found another suitcase with 44 lbs. of the explosive already on board. And on Dec. 19, 2002, two men were...
...bassline in, say, Britney’s “Toxic”). The tinny speakers simply double the effect. But the point is that the production itself is a huge part of what matters; it’s a separate idea that isn’t merely bound to replicating the original acoustics...
...dream college” survey differs from other Princeton Review surveys because results come from college-bound high school students as opposed to students already in college...
...Diverse groups, some of them launched by veterans of the Afghan camps, others entirely local may be bound together less by organizational loyalty to bin Laden than by a commitment to the ideas he personifies - global jihad against the U.S. and its allies. In the language of commerce, al-Qaeda has become a brand, with bin Laden its symbol -a signifier that immediately explains its content. Local jihadi groups in Iraq or Turkey that have no operational contact with bin Laden's leadership cadre nonetheless proclaim their affiliation with al-Qaeda, because that association amplifies the meaning of a specific...