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...Nation. Then again, even Kulper didn’t press her luck when she took in her first live game at Fenway last season. “I couldn’t find my Jeter shirt,” she recalled, “but my boyfriend said point-blank he wouldn’t defend me during a brawl, so maybe it was a good thing I didn’t wear it.”Let there be no mistake—Yankee fans are no angels. They’re overconfident, defenders of regressive economic policy...
...panorama of malefactors includes: a 13 year-old boy who is initiated into the mob by being shot point blank while wearing a bullet-proof vest, something like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste removal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry), dumping drums of toxic sludge; and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash ("Let's rack up corpses," one says, "no use feeling depressed"). Above these scarred...
...city, an isolation that could help explain the junta's underwhelming reaction to Cyclone Nargis, which left an estimated 134,000 people dead or missing. A Naypyidaw map vividly sums up the willful seclusion of Burma's leaders: the space where the generals' lavish homes should be is completely blank...
Scherer looked every inch the infantry officer while radioing back to base and calling out the mock casualties that volunteer “enemies” inflicted upon the squad by firing real M16s with blank rounds...
...pick up chicks. Harrison’s fresh, energetic portrayal of Stillman comes across on screen, but his role is limited by simple dialogue and an uninteresting storyline. Reynolds seems to realize his character’s lack of depth and submits to it, presenting the same blank facial expression when his wife leaves him as he does at the poker table. “Deal” is not a bet worth taking. For actual entertainment, turn on the World Series of Poker on ESPN. After all, it’s free...