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...chance of escape from the sour national mood. The 1971 The Omega Man (recently remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend) was another dystopian fantasy film. Again Heston was possibly the last human on earth, battling predatory subhuman creatures who might have been the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground or the Watergate plotters. In the jungle that has replaced civilization, reason gives way to armed self-defense. When another human does show up, and Heston gives her a rifle, she asks what it's for and he replies, "Comfort...
...exciting plot make the film enjoyable, although unoriginal.Loosely based on “Bringing Down the House,” the best-selling book by Ben Mezrich, “21” traces the involvement of MIT student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) with the school’s underground group of card players, organized by professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey). The team needs another player to join their trips to Las Vegas, where they count cards to turn the blackjack odds in their favor. Ben needs tuition money for Harvard Medical School and is soon seduced by the possibility...
...have no right of appeal, no legal recourse. According to the press notes for Kimberly Peirce's powerful film, some 81,000 young men and women have been "stop-lossed" since the U.S. invaded Iraq five years ago, with untold numbers of them choosing to go AWOL, living underground or in exile, but perpetually on the run, rather than accept injustice...
...India's reputation on the event, New Delhi is spending an estimated $12 billion to prepare the city for the games. With less than three years to go, plans to build state-of-the-art sports facilities and transport infrastructure, including new roads, at least 74 flyovers and new underground subway lines, have yet to be executed. Delhi's dilapidated train stations and airports will also have to be refurbished, and the city will have to add some 40,000 hotel rooms to cater to those expected to visit for the games...
...then, as New Delhi's supporters would say, that's because India is a democracy rather than an autocracy: Beijing has not had to contend with citizens' protests the way New Delhi has - from environmentalists protesting construction on the Yamuna's floodplains and conservationists protesting construction of an underground rail link near a historical monument, to motorists protesting a rapid-transit bus system that actually slows traffic down...