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...Next time someone tells you TV is a poor cousin to the movies, show them Hotel Rwanda, then this harrowing, complex story of the same genocide--if they can stand it. Don Cheadle's performance notwithstanding, Hotel Rwanda ultimately fell back on the Schindler's-List template of one-good-man-against-the-world Hollywood uplift. April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie...
...Symptoms: You find yourself hurling a non-functional telephone at a hotel concierge because all you want to do is make one flipping phone call home...
...fund the construction of 10,000 housing units for poor Saudi Arabian families. According to a March 2005 issue of Forbes Magazine, the Saudi prince has a net worth of $23.7 billion, and—until last year—owned half of New York’s Plaza Hotel...
...women in the audience at the historic Park Hyatt hotel, with cheeky, cleverly worded queries designed to produce newsworthy answers, seemed to be auditioning for the White House press corps. The President looked into the room holding 550 people around circular tables in the hotel's French Renaissance-style splendor, and called on Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel defense lawyer from New Hope, Pa. "Since the inception of the Iraqi war," she said, "I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators." The topic...
...Demonstrators with signs like "Impeach" and "Fascist" were penned across Broad Street from Bush's hotel. They booed and shouted "Shame!" as he drove past. Williams asked Bush about the protesters. "They're frankly smaller than they used to be," he replied nonchalantly, after saying that he kind of gets used to them and that they're "part of living in a democracy." Another administration critic, Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., was in town and shared Bush's time on the local news. Murtha staffers said it was a coincidence that the Democratic congressman, the most pro-military...