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...know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination—the home of the narrating heroine—is neither...
There were brief moments when the debate took a lighter tone...
...removal of those five brigades before sending more troops home. This weekend, Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed Petraeus, meaning that when the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq drops from the current 158,000 to about 130,000 in July, it could remain at that level into the fall. "A brief period of consolidation and evaluation probably does make sense," Gates said Monday as he toured a U.S. post in southern Baghdad...
...duty in which he helped to start the women’s soccer program and brought Harvard its first Ivy League championship in lacrosse, Scalise moved on to other pursuits, earning an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989. After administrative stints at the Business School and a brief tenure at the consulting firm Bain Capital, Scalise was appointed Harvard’s Athletic Director, a position which he has held for the past half-decade. Scalise also has family ties to Harvard: his wife, Maura Costin Scalise ’80 served as coach of the women?...
...After a brief stint schmoozing in the roped-off VIP area, Hilton ascended the DJ booth to praise Boston’s partying abilities...