"NORTH COUNTRY" FILM REVIEW
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
In the role of Glory, McDormand could have turned mushy when she grows sick, but she ups her rueful humor instead; as for Sean Bean, playing her husband, there is no mistaking the relief with which, after a résumé full of hams and hunks, he embraces this unexplosive role. The scene in his downstairs workshop, where he delivers a gentle lecture on hatred to Josey’s son, is the best thing Bean has ever done.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/051031crci_cinema

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND AND THE RACE TO IRAN
Linda Zoblotsky, Peace Journalism
U.S. tax-payers will foot the bill for U.S. security corporations and foreign mercenaries to protect the oil and military bases that we have built in Iraq. U.S. tax-payers will pay for the no-bid contracts as the U.S. threatens and continues to bull-doze through the Middle East. When we gather at the polls in 2006 mid-term elections, let us hope our votes count for something.
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=6329