Word: accountability
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...that, Harvard’s combined special teams percentage (.418), which takes into account penalty kills and power play goals, is at the bottom of the Ivy League...
Moya makes a subtle gesture when he succeeds the narrator’s first-hand account with a more distanced, third-person exposé of the media and police’s scramble to curb the “snake invasion.” As Sosa relays the details of his crimes, his calm demeanor permeates his victims’ screams; “The din outside was tremendous. The ladies were in a kind of orgy, biting everything in sight... In just a few seconds the street had been destroyed. There were dozens of bodies lying twisted...
...Dance with Snakes” suggests the extent of Moya’s potential, but does not realize it fully. While “Senselessness,” published eight years later, was a horrific testimony of genocide, “Dance with Snakes” is an unsettling account of a narrator disillusioned with his own race. The novel gives a glimpse of the incredible emotional devastation that makes “Senselessness” such a disconcerting story of a man losing grip with his humanity, and it hints at Moya’s humor, with its fast...
...mortality—and reinvigorates it. “The Unnamed” is a poignant, though not always cohesive narrative. A subplot at Tim’s office involving a murder investigation—a trial that he botched when he took ill—distracts from the account of his illness and its effects on those around him. Nevertheless, Tim’s psychological journey remains the compelling heart of the novel...
...notes of restraint: First, the movie's income is swelled by the higher prices charged for the 3-D version and the Imax experience. (These formats account for 80% of the film's domestic gross; worldwide, Avatar has earned about $125 million in just 262 Imax theaters.) Second, the rate of inflation complicates any comparison of movie hits from one decade to another. In real dollars, none of the superhits of the past decade - not The Dark Knight nor any movie with pirates, hobbits, wizards or spider-men - make the list of the 25 top-grossing domestic films. Titanic...