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This is writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's native ground, and as he did in last year's coolly creepy sleeper The Sixth Sense, he uses it brilliantly. Nobody grounds the supernatural in the quotidian--especially the lower-middle-class variety, where the struggle to make the rent can equal the struggle to understand the unseen--more persuasively than Shyamalan does...
This is a hushed, dark, rather thoughtfully paced film. If it lacks the persuasive menace of The Sixth Sense, that's because it's trying too hard to make its dubious point about evil as a self-conscious, supernatural immanence. Even so, it is an intelligent, insinuating entertainment. --By Richard Schickel
India is attempting to duplicate the Warana experiment in other parts of the country, if its notoriously inefficient bureaucracy allows this. Nearly two years after the project was launched at Warana, for example, the state government has yet to make digital copies of the region's land records, an essential step for simplifying land transactions and revenue collection...
...work on 2004. Richard Nixon, having lost to John Kennedy in 1960 by a few hallucinated votes in Cook County, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like five o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
There is a certain hilarious motif of dynasties at work. Henry Adams said he grew up thinking every respectable American family included at least one president. His had two - John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The Bushes would like to make it two. The Clintons would like to make it two in the same generation...