Decius wrote:

Data-Mining - not just for counterterrorism.

They're going to collect everything they can and use it to investigate everything they can.

flynn23 wrote:

They = us.

A.O. Scott:

"The Lives of Others" illuminates ... the moral no man's land where base impulses and high principles converge.

Anthony Lane:

You might think that "The Lives of Others" is aimed solely at modern Germans.

A movie this strong, however, is never parochial, nor is it period drama.

Es ist fuer uns. It's for us.

Whit Diffie and Susan Landau:

The end of the rainbow would be the ability to store all traffic, then decide later which messages were worthy of further study.

From the land of Oz:

"I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do! I do! I do! I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do! I do! I do! I do!"

"We must be over the rainbow!"

From the archive, an NYT selection:

Tall and blond, he had an easy laugh, played on the lacrosse team and liked to dance.

Then, for reasons that seem to have something to do with making a lot of money, he made the unusual decision to go to work as a minion of Lucifer.

I wonder whether there is some well-organized human being in the government or private sector who could create an organization that would go into schools on a continuing basis and teach people how careers are made.

At the end you want to be able to say, 'Wow, that was a mixed bag of tricks -- but what a bag.'"

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