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...more mind-numbing, but it’s really a bunch of mumbo-jumbo to allow us to look at sculpted bodies and watch pretty planes zoom by while things blow up. Lt. Purcell, Lt. Ben Gannon (Lucas), and Lt. Kara Wade (Biel) are the three U.S. Navy pilots chosen to fly highly advanced Stealth fighter jets—I know, this ragtag bunch just screams “elite.” But the drama heats up when a fourth unit, “Edi,” an artificially intelligent, unmanned combat aerial vehicle, joins the team...
...Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announced last week that it had chosen Alsop to be the orchestra's new conductor. The changing of the guard at an orchestra, even a top-flight outfit like the Baltimore Symphony, isn't usually a matter of widespread interest--it's not as if Alsop were dating Tom Cruise or anything--but this particular appointment is remarkable because high-level orchestral conducting is one of the last of the great professional boys' clubs, and Alsop will be the first woman ever to lead a major American symphony orchestra. She also finds herself in the awkward...
...uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet. The gray-bearded Wan says he was chosen by Frum himself as an infant. John Frum, "dressed all in white," he says, here too urged people to stick to kastom, but went to Green Point only after appearing at nearby Sulphur Bay, initially as a lion. He promised too that Americans, many of whom were stationed...
...worry, we are told, because Harry, our hero—now called the “Chosen One”—has something even better: the power of love...
...regret that he has chosen, in reflecting on recent matters at the University, to bring his service to a close,” Houghton said...