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...convoluted all at once. But the ease or difficulty of such a feat shouldn’t be the issue here: Kaufman, along with “creative” filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Darren Aronofsky, have proven that audacity and innovation don’t automatically beget relatable characters, untiresome plotting, or, as I alluded to with the “sadness” line, thematic grace; if Kaufman didn’t want the line to be trite and heavy-handed, he should have found a different way to express the sentiment behind...
...I.N.C. chain of command. Exactly what use was made of his work, Abu Ranin isn't certain, but the data would have offered scores of prospects to the Americans working on turning Iraqi agents. And as the story of al-Jaburi, Ahmed and Mahmoud illustrates, one spy can beget another who begets another...
Perhaps the demise of New Hampshire’s most famous (only?) landmark did cause the Big Green consternation. Perhaps one monumental collapse did, in fact, beget another. Or perhaps, natural phenomena notwithstanding, the Big Green was instead doomed by The Old Man on the Mound...
Rumors, of course, tend to beget more rumors when things don’t go well. So when the Harvard men’s hockey team struggled during the second half of the 2001-2002 regular season, the ping rate on negative puck-talk was at its peak, and criticism was mostly directed at the Crimson’s marquee players...
...Hindu fury: those who resist the hate. Last week, a mob stripped and then beat a Hindu woman to death for protecting her Muslim friend; another mob fatally stabbed a Muslim man for having married a Hindu. "These people always take our women as one of their wives to beget Muslim children," says one activist for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the extreme Hindu movement linked with India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...