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Big surprise: The opening of Asian companies' books has shown they were horribly run, debt-laden messes, even during the boom years.
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.
But messes just keep on smirching him.
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.
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.