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Although yesterday’s storm was severe in comparison to this winter’s weather, it was not as intense as the blizzard of Jan. 2005, which left some places in Mass. with over three feet of snow and forced students to endure 80 m.p.h. winds, according to the Boston Globe...
...capture the audience like her co-stars. It would be easy to lump “Imagine” with the current crop of gay-themed movies like “Brokeback Mountain,” but this flick is far too frothy and fluffy for such a comparison. In terms of tweaking the romantic comedy to accommodate modern notions of love, “Imagine” is rather sub-par. If the writing were crisper and Perabo just a little more compelling, then perhaps this romantic comedy would have been humorously poignant. Instead, it relies upon hackneyed romantic...
...writing this letter in reference to the Feb. 6 op-ed entitled “Now Playing: Hamas,” which I found both disappointing and misleading in its comparison of Hamas’ electoral victory to that of the Israeli Likud party...
...comparison between Hamas and Likud is inaccurate on a number of levels. The first regards religiosity. While Likud was seen as an ultra-nationalist party in 1977, Hamas combines ultra-nationalism with fundamentalist Islamism. It does not merely pursue an international policy that is uncompromising, and territorially maximalist, but also formally seeks the implementation of sharia as the law of the land—with all of the complications that such a program would pose for Muslim women and for the myriad Arab-Christian groups living under its authority...
...opening ceremony - held at 8 p.m. Torino time, and therefore six hours before it was shown on NBC on the East Coast ? used 122 makeup artists, 70 flame-thrower nozzles, 4,400 pounds of fireworks and 6,500 costumes. It was very Italian ? loud and somewhat chaotic, especially by comparison to the relatively sober 2002 winter games in Salt Lake, where a solemn ceremony began with the display of a tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The production had surprising lulls, though, such as the boring balloon heads who followed the fake cows pulled...