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The WP is using the occasion of the recent takeover of many departments of the Washington, D.C. government by a new governing board as an opportunity to look carefully at some of the city messes that need cleaning up.
Soderbergh messes up its surface the way an artist hacks at a canvas with an X-acto blade, reshuffling footage in a way that, ultimately, dovetails with both the solution to the movie's mystery and to its larger themes.
An inside NYT story by veteran reporter Francis X. Clines tells of a new growth industry--companies specializing in cleaning up the messes left by homicides and suicides.
As for whether a Kosovan war will be anything but an American one, you can hear, read and talk about this subject from dawn to dusk and not hear a word about British involvement--beyond the complaint that 'America is having to rescue Europe from another of its messes.
To pass on a wise nugget from Prudie's favorite, Dorothy Parker: It's not the tragedies of life that defeat you, it's the messes.