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...been cool to play for the same coach all four years because of the relationship standpoint,” Weitzen said. “He came in when I came into the program—we both came in as newcomers together—so we had that bond going for us...He knows how I am as a player, how I play, how I act—on and off the court...
...called index kids. In general, they found that when only one child in the family was abused, the scapegoat was usually the eldest. When a younger child was abused, some or all of the other kids usually were as well. Mistreatment of any of the children usually breaks the bond the parents have with the firstborn, turning that child from parental ally to protector of the brood. At the same time, the eldest may pick up some of the younger kids' agreeableness skills-the better to deal with irrational parents-while the youngest learn some of the firstborn's self...
...part that made Canadian actress Lois Maxwell famous--Miss Moneypenny, the down-to-earth British intelligence secretary in the first 14James Bond films--required fewer than 200words and less than 60minutes onscreen over 23years. But she made the role unforgettable. Starting in 1962's Dr. No, she was the definitive un-Bond girl: the smart, cute assistant who spurned Bond's advances, knowing he would break her heart, yet lit up when he entered the room. Many "hoped [Bond] would end up with her," said Maxwell, "because all the other women were so two-dimensional...
...Fleury's liaison in the Kingdom is Col. Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), a by-the-book officer who simply must be a decent fellow, since we see him playing nicely with his kids too. The two men bond in standard action-movie shorthand: Fleury punches out a man who had slapped Faris. Then we hunker down to investigation scenes from some CSI: Riyadh: ditch-diggings, bullet analysis and an autopsy. Faris has his own method: he searches corpses not for fingerprints but for missing fingers. Is this a flashback to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps? No, it's evidence...
...They do have time to back out, though, since their verbal pledges to attend a school are not official until, at the earliest, the fall of senior year, when a recruit signs a "National Letter of Intent" with a college. Both player and coach can break the bond before then--a move known as decommitting...