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...this desultory spy caper - which had its world premiere as the opening night selection at the Venice Film Festival, and will play the Toronto Film Festival later this week - they take George Clooney and Brad Pitt, those modern icons of sex and savoir-faire, drop them in the world of Washington, D.C., espionage, then keep ratcheting down their emotional IQs. They turn Frances McDormand (Mrs. Joel Coen off-screen) into a mad-man loser with a severe self-image problem. The characters' lives get more desperate as the camera style retains its affectless sheen...
...opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as the third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story...
...emergency nurse working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital - and die - after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, Toronto...
...working in a city, I see countless women who arrive at the hospital--and die--after a home birth gone wrong. I fully support having a midwife-assisted birth, but it should be done in a birthing center within a hospital setting equipped to deal with emergencies. Elspeth McTavish, TORONTO...
...athlete to Watch? Few nations outside the U.S. care much for basketball, let alone have LeBron on their "must watch" list. And who outside the U.S. has even heard of Dara Torres? Your parochial article was anything but an insight into the global Games. Alex Holmes, Toronto, New South Wales...