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...Boiled down to its essentials, F&F is four pretty swell auto-race video games - on a highway, across city streets, through a mountain tunnel, then in an all-terrain chase with a tunnel reprise - encased in the bloated carcass of a script by Chris Morgan that must have been researched in the Archive of Movie Clichés. In these interminable interstices, audiences in the theater can take a popcorn break or enjoy a snooze. Viewers of the DVD are luckier; they know how to find scene selection...
...Morgan or the stunt supervisors may have peeked at the 1954 car-chase movie called The Fast and the Furious, which also begins with a truck careering down a winding road, crashing and bursting into flames - except in the original, the whole thing took exactly 10 seconds. The opening scene runs about 10 minutes and is a smartly choreographed ballet mécanique. But Rodriguez's character isn't around much longer; Letty gets killed soon after. Fortunately, when Dom examines the crime scene, he turns out to have skills as both a specialist in tire-tread forensics...
...bondholders could try to resist bankruptcy, but there would be consequences. Among the bondholders are banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo that themselves have taken money from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Standing in the way of the Administration's plans for the auto industry would win them few friends. One option the bondholders have is to try to seize the factories. But that would jeopardize the partsmakers too, and the banks are also holding the paper for many industry suppliers. If the factories shut down as a result of a legal battle, so would...
...first practice in September, the first five balls she threw to me, I think I almost cried,” said co-captain Hayley Bock, the team’s starting catcher. “She can throw it for strikes; she can throw it so batters chase it…she’s surpassed my expectations...
...most grants nationwide, with three going to MIT and two to the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Another round of Early Career grants is expected in 2012. In addition to providing grant programs, Howard Hughes—a non-profit biomedical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md.—conducts research in collaboration with universities, medical centers, and other research institutions nationwide. —Staff writer Liyun Jin can be reached at ljin@fas.harvard.edu...