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History as Entertainment For an old Saturday Night Live-style comedian, there is a seriousness of purpose about Hanks as history maker. At 53, he has a repertoire that doesn't include anarchy; he's no longer the romantic-comedy clown. In fact, he exhibits a crabbed resentment toward historical...
The horrors of Nixon's Vietnam War strategy hit Hanks while he was working as a bellman for the Oakland Hilton in the mid-'70s. He was often tasked with shuttling guests to and from the nearby airport. Back then he saw the charter planes that periodically arrived filled with...
But instead Brooklyn's Finest is a movie, one with too much on its plate. We've got Tango (Don Cheadle), working undercover in the 'hood for years and itching to get out. Then there's ambitionless beat cop Eddie (Richard Gere), who wants to take it very easy because...
But for unpredictable, we have Ethan Hawke at his squirrelly, furtive best. While drug busts might scare the badge right off Eddie, Sal treats his excursions into the dens of drug dealers as financial Easter egg hunts, killing without compunction, then riffling around while everyone else is engaged in gunfire...
According to Costanza, we need different institutions for managing natural capital because of its "public good" aspects. For example, there are systems of payments for ecosystem services, such as compensating farmers who plant trees for carbon sequestration. These could be embedded in common asset trusts, set up to assign property...