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How Old School Is George Clooney's 'The American'?
(The Atlantic Wire)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:39 GMT
 The Atlantic Wire - The options could hardly be starker for Labor Day movie-goers. On one hand, there's the blood-stained Machete,
which seems to revel in the number of body-parts it dismembers for the pleasure of audiences. And, of course, there's also that
European-tinged, art-house hitman movie with the relatively unassuming poster
of George Clooney furrowing his brow. What's that one about, exactly?
It appears that nearly half of our nation's finest critics lost their
patience with the slow-burning film before trying to figure that out.
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Quote of the Day: Why Internet Debates Are So Awful
(The Atlantic Wire)
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:21:19 GMT
The Atlantic Wire - "I have thought a lot about why people get so hostile online, and I have
come to believe it is primarily because we live in a society with a
hypertrophied sense of justice and an atrophied sense of humility and charity, to put the matter in terms of the classic virtues. ... In our online debates, we not only fail to cultivate
charity and humility, we come to think of them as vices: forms of
weakness that compromise our advocacy. And so we go forth to war with
one another."--Alan Jacobs, professor of English at Wheaton College, writing at Big Questions Online. (Via ArtsJournal.)
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Newt's Faint Presidential Prospects
(RealClearPolitics.com)
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT
RealClearPolitics.com - On Friday, at a town hall in small town Oklahoma, conservative Sen. Tom Coburn said Newt Gingrich is "the last person I'd vote for, for president." Gingrich is "a super-smart man but he doesn't know anything about commitment to marriage." Gingrich lacks, in Coburn's view, "the character traits necessary to be a great president."
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