- Tracey Barnett: Executions just another news bite
Grotesque drama of deathrow inmate's final hours hard to digest. Three other times in years past, justice tried to kill him. A man named Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection in Georgia last Wednesday. You wouldn't have any... 消化しにくいdeathrowの被収容者の最終的な時間のグロテスクなドラマ
- Ireland: a dead cert for default | Larry Elliott
Saddling the Irish public with even more unpayable debts from the banks is grotesquely unfair and economically stupidThe sad saga of the Irish banks goes on. The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.Four big conclusions stem from the announcement. The first is that Ireland looks a dead cert for a default at some point in the next couple of years. By nationalising the losses accumulated by the banks as a result of their ludicrous lending during the property boom, the Irish government is saddling the Irish people with a burden of unpayable debts. This is not just grotesquely unfair but also economically stupid, since it has resulted in the Irish government imposing austerity package after austerity package in a uphill battle to put its fiscal house in order.That, in turn, has hobbled the Irish economy, making it harder for the country to generate the growth without which the financial mess can never really be cleaned up. So, while a so-called haircut for private-sector holders of Irish bank debt would be unpopular in the rest of the European Union, the only alternative is for Ireland's depression – which has already lasted for three years – to extend way into the future.The second conclusion is Ireland's quite impressive effort to dig itself out of the pit is being jeopardised by the failure, even now, to come clean about how bad things are. Ireland has a strong export sector and this has performed well over the past couple of years, helping to compensate for the collapse in the domestic economy. Given a clean start, Ireland has the potential to exploit the recovery in global demand seen si アイルランド系銀行の銀行からさらに支払えない借金とアイルランドの国民をSaddlingグロテスクかつ経済的にstupidThe不公平ですが悲しい物語が進む
- Why Obama is safer than Papa B | Peter Preston
There are some electoral problems that the Republicans won't solve for sheer lack of talentThere is a political X factor too, of a kind Simon Cowell might recognise. It blends charisma and seeming control in a way that signals somebody special, a leader with hidden depth. It's Obama when he's talking the talk. It was Thatcher but never Major, Blair for a while but never Brown.And now, suddenly, at five minutes to midnight by the absurdly stretched timetable of presidential politics, America's great alternative party of governance finds itself utterly bereft of candidates, in a dark place where no X marks the spot.Don't worry, though, the comforting argument goes. Remember 1992, when the Democrats hadn't got a runner apart from that dodgy clown from Arkansas and Papa Bush looked like a shoo-in for a second term?A lot can happen in 17 months – especially when, now as then, the economy is still playing stupid. If you don't like boring Romney or flaky Palin, there's always some new miracle worker lurking just off stage. Three weeks ago Steve Forbes, the boss of the eponymous magazine empire, was telling me that Chris Christie from New Jersey or Mitch Daniels from Indiana would both make a run. But no, sorry, Steve: they're out. Even Donald Trump has decided that Celebrity Apprentice contracts come first.And, anyway, the whole Clinton-was-nobody scenario from two decades ago is a grotesque exercise in self-delusion. You know an X factor when you see it. I'd seen it a few years before, looking down from the balcony in Lancaster House, as Mikhail Gorbachev first appeared on a world stage and began working the crowd, pumping hands, squeezing shoulders, chatting and oozing bonhomie. He was politician incarnate, not some frozen-faced Kremlin clone. You instinctively registered a 共和党は政治的なXの要因は、サイモンコーウェルは、認識可能性があります種類の、大きすぎるtalentThereの膨大な不足のために解決できないことがいくつかの選挙の問題があります
- The Guantánamo files: Tale of two prisons | Editorial
Guantánamo embodies the failure of the Afghan war, which began amid bombast in 2001, but which collapsed long agoAs a metaphor for everything that has gone wrong with the Afghan war, the story of two prisons is hard to beat. In one prison, they can't get the remaining inmates out. In the other, they can't keep them in. Either way, the military coalition has been left looking like a fool.In southern Afghanistan yesterday morning, 475 prisoners, almost all said to be Taliban insurgents, escaped through a tunnel that seems to have been dug under the eyes of their captors. And just as the Taliban were digging their way out, the Guardian and the New York Times were putting online leaked documents describing the management of inmates in that other, more famous prison in Guantánamo Bay. President Obama was elected on a promise to close the latter within a year of taking office. Instead he has abandoned the task with 172 inmates still inside. Some of these, as the Guantánamo files show, are seriously unpleasant and dangerous but others are lesser figures who have become lost in the system after years of abuse and misinformation made them impossible to prosecute or simply homeless, like the Chinese Uighur Muslims, who have nowhere to go.Either way, Guantánamo embodies the failure of America and Britain's Afghan war, which began amid bombast in 2001, but which collapsed long ago into confusion. The thing that stands out from the newly published Guantánamo files is not the disgraceful self-exempted off-shoring of the rule of law, or even the torture and sustained abuse of inmates – grotesque though these things are, we have long known about them – but the random ineffectiveness of the system. The defence put forward by the people who set Guantánamo up – it was an efficient way of グアンタナモは、2001年に大言壮語の中で始めたが、長いagoAsにアフガン戦争と間違っているすべてのメタファーを崩壊アフガン戦争の失敗を体現して、二刑務所の物語が勝利するのは難しいです
- Mary and Max – review
Ambitious, if at times grotesque, Adam Elliot's claymation tale of Asperger's and friendship in Australia is unlikely but detailedA very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be sickly-cute, alarmingly grotesque, and right-on at the same time – often in the very same scene. The two principal characters are an unloved, unregarded kid from Melbourne – Mary – and a heavyset middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome, Max; they become penpals after Mary's random encounter with a telephone directory, and their exchange of letters swiftly emerges as the emotional lifeline for their unhappy existences. All of this is rendered in almost completely monochromatic claymation – only occasional colours stand out, such as the red pompom Mary sends to Max at one point – and writer-director Adam Elliot inserts many a throwaway gag and impressively leftfield (and largely insect-related) detail. He's also recruited an impressive voice cast – including Toni Collette, Barry Humphries and Philip Seymour Hoffman. But the switches in tone are jolting, to say the least: at one moment, Mary is enthusing about her favourite TV show; the next, we are being treated to a lecture on the symptoms of Asperger's. You have to admire the ambition, even if Elliot doesn't always seem certain if he's laughing with or at his creations.Rating: 3/5AnimationAustraliaAndrew Pulverguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
野心的では、時間グロテスクでいる場合、アスペルガー症候群と友情、オーストラリアでのAdam Elliotのクレイの物語は病弱-、驚くほどグロテスクな、かわいいように管理し、オーストラリアからはほとんどがdetailedA非常に奇妙な、非常に低いアニメ映画です右同じ時間にで - しばしば非常に同じシーンインチメアリー - - 2つの主要な文字が愛されている、メルボルンから子。注目されないとアスペルガー症候群、最大でがっしりした中年ニューヨーカー、彼らは、電話帳とメアリーのランダムな出会いの後ペンパルとなる文字の彼らの交換が迅速として現れるその不幸の存在のための感情的なライフライン
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