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...sports epic. In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans. The players are simple jocks, content with playing a game of few, loosely enforced rules. But as attention shifts from locker rooms to board rooms, where the real struggle for control of the game's bright, yet much more respectable, future is waged, Leatherheads loses some of its formerly merry ways. It wants to make the case that there is more fun - maybe more simple humanity - to be found in the formative years of mighty enterprises (the movie business is an equally good example), before...
...caught flat-footed by the scale and scope of the Lhasa protests, it has been equally unready to change its policies on the human-rights front, despite knowing almost from the day the Games were awarded to Beijing in 2001 that hosting the Olympics would shine an increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. In fact, rights advocates inside and outside China say a string of recent convictions and the imprisoning of activists all over the country are just the latest in a yearlong, wide-ranging crackdown designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead...
...been repeated in countless other films. But it also features slick camera work that displays the blackjack game from Ben’s point of view and illustrates the nuances of the game to the uninitiated. The gaudy, dark casinos and dance clubs contrast with the bright, cozy images of Ben’s college life. The clash between these two worlds ultimately sends him on a downward spiral.This downfall is never fleshed out, though, as in-depth characterization takes a backseat to the gambling plot. Despite the script’s lack of depth, Sturgess does a fine...
Zimbabwe is the first country to face this crisis. Mugabe is a bright man with a sense of history. He has long known that he must step down one day - but at a time of his choosing and to a worthy successor, if only he could find one. He is incensed at the thought of being pitched out of office by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, a man he had dismissed as an ill-educated rabble rouser who played no role in the anticolonial struggle...
...Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because of the intellectual opportunities that such positions afford. Indeed, the meritocratic sensibilities of American education dictate that the best educators should teach at the strongest schools and for the highest pay. It is this critical concentration of bright minds and prolific resources that both fosters and generates high levels of thought and discovery. Indeed, a study of America’s leading research universities, released this year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, showed that the research productivity of the so-called “Ivy Plus?...