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While Kylie didn’t choose her father’s sports path, she certainly had competitive lacrosse in her blood. Katey, who is Mike’s sister, was a lacrosse star in college at New Hampshire. She was a four-year letterwinner and captain of both the hockey and lacrosse teams, helping both teams to championships during her time there...
...made his esteemed rep with creepy, enigmatic studies of human menace - works like The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land. He'd put two people in a room (that is, on the stage) and not let them out till the bitterness erupted and the blood flowed. Such was Pinter's craft and nerve that the audience felt as caged as the characters. It just made sense to let him loose on Shaffer's one-room play about two devious men playing killer tricks on each other...
...their physicians. The reason: they don't believe doctors know a lot about the drugs, and they suspect that physicians, like the general public, have an exaggerated idea about how dangerous steroids really are. The users themselves tend to be aware of side effects like liver damage, high blood pressure and behavioral changes. That's why most users inject the steroids instead of taking them by mouth, in order to better control blood levels and lessen the risk of liver toxicity. A majority of habitual users also get blood work at least once a year, probably to make sure...
...blood of the peacefully marching Buddhist monks in Burma stained the whole nation. Burma has been a failed state since the military usurped power in the 1960s. Sadly, it is now almost beyond repair. The punitive, high-handed military junta continues to consolidate its power by oppressing not just the political opposition but the impoverished population. The economy is a shambles. Who will come to the aid of the suffering people of Burma? Venze Chern, Bangkok...
...academy graduation, he says “I love you” to his brother for the first time in the whole film. That this murder brings the brothers together is disturbing enough—more chilling is the film’s brazen embracing of a confraternity of blood. —Reviewer Kyle L. K. McAuley can be reached at kmcauley@fas.harvard.edu...