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...strange genre conventions in movies - that the rich girl will fall in love with the poor boy, or that people will choose to express themselves by bursting into song - surely the goofiest is the one at the heart of the traditional Western: that the good guy will be the best shot. Does that make any sense? Surely the villain will have had more practice, and with more live targets. Surely he will not wait for a sporting opportunity to murder. Yet there he is, at the wrong end of Main Street, about to be perforated by the unerring trajectory...
...brain and, as I can testify, can't be extracted for weeks. The Corbucci film also inspired later generations of video hounds, including Quentin Tarantino, who appropriated the Django scene of banditos cutting off a preacher's ear for his film Reservoir Dogs. (The original went further: the poor...
...There’s no greater challenge than development in poor parts of the world, and there’s no private entity and few public entities that have the kind of resources to deploy that the Gates Foundation does,” Summers said. “I am honored to have been asked to help...
...summer of 2000, public health experts and activists convened in Durban, South Africa for the 13th International AIDS Conference. Although South Africa was home to the world’s largest HIV positive population, most of the infected were far too poor to afford the anti-retroviral therapy that can transform HIV into a manageable chronic illness...
...impact of the disease seemed undeniable: With 25 percent of South Africa’s national population infected and 600 deaths each day, South Africa’s AIDS epidemic had already decimated communities. Yet because the disease remained a death sentence primarily for South Africa’s poor, its fearful name was rarely spoken. And for those brave enough to break the silence that exacerbated misunderstanding and perpetuated inaction, the price could be dear. In late 1998, a woman named Gugu Dlamini publicly announced that she was HIV-positive on radio and television stations; soon after...