Word: instead
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Dates: during 2010-2010
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...instead Brooklyn's Finest is a movie, one with too much on its plate. We've got Tango (Don Cheadle), working undercover in the 'hood for years and itching to get out. Then there's ambitionless beat cop Eddie (Richard Gere), who wants to take it very easy because he's got seven days to retirement (not so fast, Eddie). Finally, there is narcotics officer Sal (Ethan Hawke), who has a wife (Lili Taylor) pregnant with twins and a miniature house already bursting at the seams with too many children to count. He's desperate for more money and while...
...Instead, Purcell said, the team aims to focus on effecting change in the short and long term...
...There is, perhaps, another factor as well. Instead of coming up through Harlem's political machine, the newest batch of African-American leaders - stars such as Obama, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Alabama Representative Artur Davis, Rangel's colleague on Ways and Means - have risen through the traditional channels of the U.S. meritocracy, says David Bositis, an expert on black electoral politics at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington. "These guys are Ivy league, corporate-law-firm types," Bositis says. "You're talking about a very different political system than what Basil Paterson, Dinkins and guys...
...Hussein or an extension of the policies of American administrators who found it easiest to deal with Iraqis through a crude sectarian and ethnic prism? Whatever the cause, the sectarian leaders who prevailed in the elections enabled by the U.S. proved incapable of peacefully resolving their differences, which were instead settled in the streets. But as Iraq's fragile new democracy matures, its ever divisive identity politics are becoming more complicated...
...That change may also be caused by shifts in the sectarian fault lines. Instead of Shi'ite-vs.-Sunni conflict, tensions now are mounting inside ethnic and sectarian groups. The duopolistic ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan find themselves under threat from a breakaway movement - Goran, or "change" - more interested in cleaning up politics in the Kurdistan Regional Government than in accelerating Kurdish autonomy from the rest of Iraq. And there's been plenty of bad blood between al-Maliki and the fundamentalist Shi'ite parties of the Iraqi National Alliance ever since the Prime Minister sent the army...