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...employment. "In a case where an export market is going down, if you want to reduce your number of workers, then you face a lot of problems," says Stanley Lau, vice chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. To lay off people, "you need to pay a huge amount in compensation." Nor is there any relief from surging raw-materials costs. And slowly but surely, the renminbi, China's currency, continues to strengthen--it's now 12% higher against the U.S. dollar than it was 18 months ago--making China's exports more expensive worldwide...
...that fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch: “a huge bowl of green peas...a chicken parm sandwich, and...a cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues. “Literary Men?...
...Graveyard Girl,” Gonzales resurrects the perfect moment of the music he reveres. The choruses are so sublimely immersed in living sonics—and balanced ingeniously against verses with little more than drums and vocals—that the transitions between the two are huge, bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after...
...obtained outstanding grades, and joined the elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail—in fact, had deferred his acceptance for a year because of it—and had falsified his SATs and high school grades. Princeton had been taken in by a huge scam. Samuels artfully blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue is not your average identity thief. While Hogue is a man who is deeply disturbed, compelled to lie and steal from anyone he could possibly rip off, Samuels carefully peels back the superficial labels...
...multiple scenes; he presents ideas so repetitiously that they become tiresome.Two factors save the movie from drowning in social commentary: the acting and the rare moments that subtly speak to the larger picture. Sleiman and Jenkins deliver the strongest performances. As Tarek, Sleiman’s emotional range and huge smile create the movie’s most touching moments, while Vale—brought to life by Jenkins—is the only character given a chance to fully develop. Their relationship is the movie’s best theme and produces nearly every poignant moment. The wordless final...