Inside, it's a little more tense, as lines of students queue up - financial aid applications in hand - to negotiate how they're going to pay for their education.

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Filming in black-and-white, Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders (including some of the most heartbreaking snowflakes in recent cinema).

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In two debates now, Bush has appeared tense and uptight -- and his answers have been, for the most part, memorized stock lines from his standard stump speech.

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