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...make matters worse, Josie has no support. Her female co-workers refuse to demand change, despite the daily blow- job jokes, name calling, and sporadic dildos in their lunch boxes. Even her best friend Glory (McDormand), who recommended the job in the first place, grows cold and defensive when Josie starts to rock the boat with complaints...

Author: By Faith O. Imafidon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: North Country | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...drinking tea on a hillside above Nablus, gossiping about girls and whining about their boss. Dishes are washed, children are put to bed; there is not much else to do at night. Then one of the intifadeh's local leaders tells the friends that they've been chosen to blow themselves up the next day, in a mission that has been planned for months. What has led them to volunteer for duty? The answer lies partly in one man's need to expunge his sense of shame over his father's political betrayal. But the other simply wants to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ordinary People | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

...with a smaller engine, starts at $48,775) features a five-L, 302-h.p. power plant that, while not sports-car responsive when you stick the accelerator, sucks up the passing lane with the kind of grace and power that makes you smirk as you blow past lesser machines. The suspension, on the other hand, leaves nothing to be desired. I had every intention of braking or downshifting (the transmission is one of those silly, mutable automatics) as we approached a 40-m.p.h. curve at 65 m.p.h., but the car was having none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Test Drive: R-Class | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...philosophically unsound long before Darwin ever came around. (There are many good objections, but here’s an especially juicy one: if the premise that all complexities were designed is accepted, then what could account for the complexities of the designer itself?) And then, like the second blow in a one-two punch, came Darwin, who spared us forever from having to use bad philosophy to fill in the holes that science could not yet address...

Author: By Andrew M. Trombly, | Title: Turning Back the Clock | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...lack of a big day from the record-breaking runner is a substantial blow to his Payton Award candidacy. Dawson’s no-touchdown performance is likely to push him down in the running for the award, bestowed to the top player in Division...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hobbled Dawson Never Got Started | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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