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...sure we'll kick some butt at Mount Holyoke," Bozivich said...
They bicker and bond--a wise, weary detective (Morgan Freeman) in his last week before retirement and an eager kid (Brad Pitt) fresh from the country and ready to kick some big-city butt. Police partnerships don't come any lower concept than this. On the other hand, the serial killer they are pursuing, a creepy, brainy religious fanatic played by Kevin Spacey, is a high-concept kind of guy: he's trying to commit seven murders in seven days, each of them supposed to illustrate one of the seven deadly sins in some preposterously stomach-churning...
Then there's the Citadel itself, a tin-pot, second-rate military academy whose unofficial motto is "2.0 and Go." It has few distinguished alumni among the third of its graduates who go into the military (most grads become kick-butt insurance agents and stockbrokers). While the Citadel might not have been a worthy target, Faulkner was nonetheless, as its first female, required to be Uberwoman-as fit as Arnold Schwarzenegger, as bald as Sinead O'Connor and as beautiful as Michelle Pfeiffer. Instead Faulkner was a little bit dumpy, a little bit plain and a little bit whiny...
Brie Kane was only seven when she tried her first cigarette, really just a stale butt she found in her mother's ashtray. It made her sick, but not sick enough to stay away forever. Five years later, she and a friend began secretly sharing Marlboros in the backyard of Brie's home in Olney, Maryland. Now that she is 18, Brie sometimes goes through a pack of Misty Lights a day. Most of the people she knows--her sister, her parents, many of her school friends--are smokers too. "It's just something to do," she explains. Thrusting...
...Private philanthropy will never be able to restore what seems about to be taken away. Some will not notice it; others won't care; given the shortness of American social memory, perhaps the next generation won't know what happened. Partial lobotomies work that way. They favor Beavis and Butt-head. Is that the business of American government...