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...tailored to his black-and-white way of thinking and speaking, has now come and gone? Bush has always preferred his poison straight up or down, good vs. bad, dead or alive, you're either with us or you're with the terrorists. That's a great way to frame things when you're launching a war. But when the moment ends and the world goes back to being gray, where does that leave...
Sequoia way is easy for travelers to overlook. Nestled in the middle-class neighborhood of Village Park on the south side of Sacramento, Calif., it is an unremarkable stretch of single-story frame houses. But if you stroll a bit along the winding road and visit Sequoia Way's residents, you will quickly realize there's something extraordinary about this street...
...Martel's postmodern frame and half twist of an ending both reinforce his religious themes and inject a bracing dose of uncertainty. Is Pi a trustworthy raconteur? When the story is this satisfying, it doesn't really matter. Martel leaves all claims open-ended, like his protagonist's limitless faith. If Life of Pi is not quite a story to make you believe in God, it may convince you that when it comes to existence, we're all in the same boat...
...important to stay idealistic. Besides, art must sometimes be an irritant to stimulate debate." Debate is at the heart of French filmmaker Alain Brigand's latest project, 11'09'01. He asked 11 directors to film self-contained segments lasting precisely 11 min. 9 sec. each plus one frame (a restriction that one participant, Indian director Mira Nair, called "French conceptual bulls__t"). Brigand describes the project - which also includes segments by Sean Penn and Ken Loach - as "an open dialogue. We have people from different cultures sharing the different implications they draw from the event...
Sequoia Way is easy for travelers to overlook. Nestled in the middle-class neighborhood of Village Park on the south side of Sacramento, Calif., it is an unremarkable stretch of single-story frame houses. But if you stroll a bit along the winding road and visit Sequoia Way's residents, you will quickly realize there's something extraordinary about this street...