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What's so great about an hour of political gobblety-gook (beside Rob Lowe's incredible good looks)? First and foremost, "West Wing" maintains an incredibly high level of substantive content. In the 40-some-odd minutes of actual airtime, one finds more quality political discussion than could be gleaned...
A win over the Tigers would mean a great deal for the seniors, who have watched the Harvard field hockey program grow into a national contender.
The No. 19 Harvard field hockey team dismantled Yale and showed why it is a legitimate contender for the Ivy League championship. Although the first half ended in a scoreless tie, the Crimson quickly proceeded to get on the board with a goal from junior forward Jane Park.
Another confession: liberal movie critics tend to be critical of liberal movies. We're more susceptible to the red meat of an old Clint Eastwood actioner than to the good intentions of a warm-'n'-fuzzy plea for brother- and sisterhood. It's not the politics that rankles so much...
The writer-director, son of political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, lets his large, attractive cast display varieties of charisma and chicanery for an hour or so. Then he has everyone make speeches; it's as though a TV remote control had switched from The West Wing to the Lieberman-Cheney debate...