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...Import Export. Director Ulrich Seidl tells two unrelated stories - of Austrian men working in Ukraine, and of a young Ukrainian woman who comes to Austria - with the earthshaking message that men are bad and women put up with them. The guys spend their spare time degrading women they pick up in bars, making one strip, crawl on the floor and bark like a dog. Women pose naked before a camera, following the rude commands of Web cam masturbators. In a hospital for the aged, nurses perform perfunctory tasks for old droolers, whom Seidl photographs unpityingly. The humiliations - of the characters...
Leaving home in Rocky River, Ohio, was hard for Daniel Scherry. His mother and two sisters were in tears when his Marine Corps recruiter, Staff Sergeant Eric Evans, went to pick him up for basic training in the spring of 2006. Soon Scherry was crying too. "His sisters were his world," says Evans. Their names, Kacie and Lauren, were tattooed on the inside of his arms. To console Scherry, Evans told the young Marine the recruiter would be there for the sisters while he was away...
...parents to expect plenty of A+++’s and maybe a couple of Hoopes Prizes. As you already know, the end of my story is not a happy one. It’s been three years, and somehow the infamous Harvard grade-inflation bus keeps forgetting to pick me up. If there was a war between the vowels and consonants on my report card, the vowels would not stand a chance. Despite my embarrassing secret that I’m a Harvard student who doesn’t get straight A’s, I am still very...
...drums pulsate in gentle rhythms, then pick up the pace as the chanting and rocking crescendos to a fever pitch. As the sun sets, soft pink clouds are illuminated in the sky, and a single electric star glows from above the doorway of the mosque. Suddenly, the drums fall silent, and the dancing stops...
...Price skills are as important to the biggest fish as to penny-scroungers. Quiz-show skills are the stuff of middlebrow success, of the star pupils who do their homework, please their teachers and go on to earn solid middle-manager salaries. But business fortunes are built, like Pick-a-Pair victories, on risk, a little luck and pricing assets: calculating, assessing value and never overbidding. (And against a ticking clock.) People who do that are the ones who amass billions, drive the economy and bankroll politicians. They don't need to know when the Magna Carta was signed; they...