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...biology professor handle the pressure? On the plus side, Palestinians say that Shabir is liked and respected by Abbas and Haniyeh. He has a scientist's impartiality, and he a slight West Virginian accent. But the biologist's success will ultimately depend on how well he can convince the Bush Administration that his future Palestinian cabinet will not be dominated by Hamas. And those are skills you don't learn under the microscope...
...underrated 2005 film, “The Weather Man,” Michael Caine provides invaluable advice to his son, Nicholas Cage, who is suffering from an existential crisis. In his characteristic British accent, Caine says: “Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. ‘Easy’ doesn’t enter into grown-up life.” At this stage, no wiser words could be applied to the Harvard College Curricular Review.For the last...
...home is not the quaint town of Edinburgh or the tall castles of Europe. For better and for worse, my roots remain in New Jersey. But while I will always remain loyal to that widely disparaged municipal territory, with its less-than picturesque turnpike, chutzpah-infused accent, and uniquely fragrant shore breeze, I’m thankful for the opportunity to participate in such a thrilling tour...
...events in Morocco inexplicably serves as the movie’s narrative climax. Luckily, Iñárritu’s characters don’t have to talk much. Blanchett, as the wounded tourist, doesn’t get much dialogue to show off her American accent. She mainly just bleeds, although she does occasionally moan. The not-quite-convincingly-graying Pitt likewise has little to do other than alternately bristle and cower. The usually charismatic Gael García Bernal (“The Science of Sleep”) is unfortunately given only a peripheral role...
...that he was pure muscle. In most other ways, he looked like Mikhail Gorbachev. “Do not worry about it, life is supposed to be miserable,” he kept saying as stragglers walked in late.Talking at breakneck speed in his thick, barely intelligible Russian accent, Dr. Shubentsov declared that he didn’t believe in mysticism, and that he wasn’t going to “reach into our brains.” Having satisfied our skepticism, he went around the room and asked each of us if we suffered from depression...