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...those French directors - Luc Besson (The Professional) and Pierre Morel (District B13) are others - who have renounced the glacial minimalism of their national film style for the wild vigor of American B movies. As briskly as the Mesrine story hurtles through its heists, holdups and hair-breadth escapes, the camera moves faster, but always purposefully. Richet brings all the characters to plausible, entertaining life, but Cassel easily dominates the action. Often, as in Eastern Promises, he plays the strutting punk with more bravado than brains. Here he's the unchallenged star, the total movie criminal: smart, daring, ruthless, indomitable...
...outreach, and recruitment efforts, as well as ways in which Harvard’s past experience as well as best practices elsewhere can inform our future practice.” Such a broad agenda endows the committee with the authority necessary to complete the task at hand, but its breadth verges on vagueness, and in a committee setting, such agendas often lead to nothing more than unsubstantial and unhelpful recommendations. Rather than fall victim to such ambiguity, the HUPD review committee’s broad agenda must clarify, not muddle, the central questions to which the Harvard community urgently needs...
...That sentiment, seemingly an allusion to the breadth and complexity of the Democratic candidate and the party he represents, cut to the heart of the 2008 Democratic National Convention...
...drinkers are symbols of the Met's impressive breadth. The pace of their work is more sedate than the high-octane life of colleagues in rapid-response units or on big investigations. Still, the job has its excitements. Today, Port and Ward find a stash of heroin and crack cocaine in an old shoe on a ledge above the elevator in a tenement block. Next stop is a friendly call at a café called Cyber Juices. The proprietress welcomes the cops. "Whatever you're doing, you're doing a good job," she says. "I have to give you props...
...much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced "cool"), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo! and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results it delivers...