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These plots are acted out by a large and largely interchangeable cast of characters--Next feels less like a novel than some kind of interminable convention. You can recognize the good guys, who are sober and clear-eyed. You can recognize the bad guys, who are reckless and shortsighted, and if you still don't get it, they're mean to children. The villains here are all people, which is a problem, since Crichton's people are a lot less plausibly human than his dinosaurs, of which there are zero in Next. There's only one authentically chilling moment, when...
...World War II through its involvement in the Bay of Pigs. It is told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite a bit to say about the movie business, why he does comedies...
...signal moment in the war between the Bush White House and the media. If the issue seems like pointless semantics, it is hardly so to the Administration, which has been fixated on framing issues and politicizing language. It (and Fox News) renamed suicide bombers "homicide bombers." It cast the fight against al-Qaeda as a "war on terror," even though the struggle was unlike old-fashioned wars between armies. Now it wants Iraq not to be a "civil war"--ironically, on the ground that it is unlike old-fashioned civil wars between armies--and has suggested that anyone who calls...
...comes from taking part in a Gilbert and Sullivan production,” Miller says. “I think there’s some unparalleled sense of excitement that can come from a rousing production of ‘H.M.S. Pinafore,’ and with our large cast and extravagant production this year, I hope we will achieve that and bring that out in the audience,” he says.ENCORE FOR ALUMSHRG&SP members and alumni have been planning to put together an event-filled weekend since December of last year. The festivities were scheduled to begin...
...tour through all the states that have early primaries - Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, along with his native Pennsylvania. In announcing his candidacy, Vilsack acknowledged the long odds, telling a crowd in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, that "I have always been an underdog and a long shot." He cast himself as a candidate with "the courage to create change", a phrase he invoked repeatedly in calling for an improved health care system, the end of bickering in Washington, an energy policy less dependent on foreign oil and pushing Iraqis to take control of their own security...