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...Devils on the Doorstep, Jiang's second and, to date, last foray as a director, is set during the Japanese occupation of a rural Chinese village. It was shot in black-and-white with the stark sensibilities of Akira Kurosawa. It tells the tale of a hapless farmer who has two Japanese prisoners dumped on him by the Chinese resistance. He is ordered to interrogate them and deliver a report or face deadly consequences. Caught between fear of the rebels and fear of the Japanese, the farmer hatches a plan of self-preservation that proves disastrous. All the characters display...
...didn’t need to be the center of attention,” friend Tom Stark told...
...glad he’s on our team,” senior offensive lineman Justin Stark said earlier this year. “I’d hate to have to go up against him. No one has been more important to our team’s success than Carl...
...remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December. "It reminds me of the extermination sites the Nazis built in such magnificently beautiful forests...
Pitt came to the job with a goal of regulating through consensus and self-policing, a stark change from his predecessor, Arthur Levitt, who was an outspoken ally of the small investor. In the wake of Enron, Pitt hasn't had a chance to test his style, and the hard-charging Spitzer is now making many wonder if Pitt isn't plain soft. "The SEC under Harvey Pitt has been something of a reluctant regulator," says John Coffee, professor of securities law at Columbia University. Damon Silvers, associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO, which has been carping about analyst...