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There are similarities between The Blind Side and Precious, the hit indie film about a pregnant, illiterate teenage girl whose teacher goads her toward self-worth. Both Michael and Precious begin as scholastic failures with awful moms and no hope who are reclaimed and saved by a caring adult woman...
To be fair, this elongated chase is punctuated by a series of fight scenes as mesmerizing as the movie’s opening. While these scenes are some compensation for the rest of the film, they too lack suspense and intrigue. The interactions between Raizo and his beloved at the...
There are few people in sports as beloved as Bill Hancock, who was just appointed the first permanent executive director of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the highly controversial, deeply unpopular system that determines the national champion of college football. A long-time college sports administrator and former director of...
McCullough is boyish and blond. His acid blue eyes and commanding tone offset his somewhat delicate physical presence. He is a thoughtful officer, beloved by the Marines he led through fierce fighting as they established themselves in Helmand this summer.
However, despite Camus' early years as a communist and long dedication to fighting imperialism, his later rejection of totalitarianism of all kinds - and denunciation of Soviet oppression that ran him afoul of contemporaries like Jean-Paul Sartre - don't exactly make him a perfect icon of the left, says Cusset...