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Bottom Line: “Apocalypto” may prove the ultimate in sanguine cinema for those who don’t find a total tally of four still-beating hearts held aloft a petrifying prospect. But if the beauty of a blood-cloud leaves you cold, or worse, slightly ill, it may prove a far less pleasing experience...
...weightclass at the 25th Annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas on Saturday, a victory that was even more satisfying given that Ogunwole lost to the same opponent last year in the tournament.But even as he sought revenge, Ogunwole did not let last year’s frustrations cloud his sportsmanship.“The fact that I had lost to him before was a big motivating factor,” Ogunwole said. “At the same time, I still had to stay focused and respect that he is a really great wrestler. A combination of that will and determination...
...waging war with Israel. Among Lebanon's downtrodden Shi'ites, Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah now enjoys mythical status. The many faces of Nasrallah appear everywhere. At times he is portrayed as a jolly preacher, a wise scholar or a glowering warrior with his turban like a black storm cloud overhead. When a starstruck woman requested the abaya, or robe, that he wore during the war, Nasrallah obliged, and since then TV crews have been following the woman across Lebanon as she displays this now holy garment for other faithful fans...
...Aronofsky brings every bit as much cinematic audacity to this film as he did to his first two, building elaborate visual motifs: Tree rings as a Mayan tattoo and as cloud formations; foliage that surrounds Tomas in the 16th century and grows through him in the 26th. Just as you didn?t have to be a junkie to appreciate Requiem or a member of the Kabbalah to go for Pi, you don?t have to be moved to tears by The Fountain to admire its complexity...
...they're finding a sense of wholeness by binding themselves to their faith. Sister Melissa Schreifels, 37, first considered becoming a nun when a teacher at her high school in St. Cloud, Minn., suggested it. Because it seemed that "nobody was doing that anymore," Schreifels attended college and launched a career as a pharmacist, volunteering at her church, a hospital library and a pregnancy crisis center in her spare time. "But there was just an emptiness inside that doing the volunteer work and the pharmacy work didn't fill in me," she says. When a pastor again suggested sisterhood, Schreifels...