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...article on Salon.com, Sidney Blumenthal points out that the president “was asked three times whether he accepted responsibility for failing to act before Sept. 11 on warnings such as the President’s Daily Brief of Aug. 6, 2001, titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’” Although it seems that such pointed questions and blatant evidence (to reiterate: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”) would make anyone buckle and admit some fault, Dartboard realized that Bush?...
Although Ripley is far removed from the petty criminality to which he once had to resort in order to build his fortune, it is not to last. Reeves (Sexy Beast’s Ray Winstone, gone all Ben Kingsley), an old partner from Ripley’s brief foray into art forgery, arrives one day, demanding Ripley’s help in murdering a competing Berlin mob boss...
Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy continues with Part 2: An Amazing Couple. The experiment of The Trilogy is to have three films with interlocking stories—main characters in each one have brief appearances in the others—each made in a different genre. An Amazing Couple is the romantic comedy of the set, featuring a sensitive hypochondriac named Alain Costes and his wife, Cecile. Alain misunderstands a need for a minor operation as an indication that he is soon to die. Deciding to keep his wife from worry, he secretively visits doctor after doctor, arousing...
...sure, professors should not attempt to overextend the pedagogical potential of course websites. Online discussion boards, a pet of some professors, rarely generate worthwhile reflection on the course content—and even less frequently do they even generate discussion. Instead the boards are often forgotten after a brief flurry of compulsory activity at the start of the semester. Mandatory virtual discussions are frequently perceived as chores; professors would be better served by focusing on improving real life interactions between students. If they do that, and improve websites in the areas we listed above, College professors will make the most...
When Denner asked about the brief examinations they conducted in the police station before taking Pring-Wilson to the hospital on both days, none of the EMTs said they saw external signs of injury...