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...spitball directly at the colossus. In Im Sang Soo's Korean drama A Good Lawyer's Wife, the lawyer's ailing father tartly observes, "Voting that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed...
Harvard continued its New York swing yesterday, traveling to No. 14 Iona. The Crimson fell 11-6 to the Gaels as Iona capitalized on a significant home-pool advantage...
...satellite" movement - in July the bbc made its satellite transmission free to anyone with a satellite receiver - plus a feisty new multichannel TV operation called Freeview (which attracted 1.6 million customers in less than a year), and BSkyB could be looking at much more modest growth. As the subscriber pool diminishes, BSkyB is under increasing pressure to extract more revenue from each user. Yet the percentage of viewers signing up for the pricey $61-per-month premium service is in slow decline relative to those committing to the $19 basic service. BSkyB hopes to offset this in part by pushing...
...It’s good for students will have a larger pool from which to select,” she said...
...Some of the letters' authors are as young as nine. Several have been locked up for three years or more, and their writings depict an arid dystopia of razor wire, beatings, attempted suicides and surveillance cameras?hopelessly remote from the great Australian dream of a swimming pool and backyard barbecue for all. A letter from an Iraqi embodies the pathos: "I am half dead... I am ashamed to tell you I really need some warm clothes and shoes if you please. They never give me anything in this three year [sic]." A 14-year-old Syrian wrote, "I am maybe...