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...contrast, it quickly became clear that the President was not about to arrive in St. Louis and flirt. He came to fight and did, staring down opponent and questioner alike. If polls show that even 33% of Bush voters are looking for a second-term course correction, Bush had little to say to them. He is holding fast, no doubts, no surrender. There would be no admission of error, despite a weeklong discussion within his campaign about whether to show any contrition about anything. "There's no turning back now," says an outside adviser to the Bush team...
This plot chugs on parallel tracks, with flashbacks set in Charles' childhood. The career scenes are shot in high-contrast graininess, the early ones in a pellucid sunlight that Charles would soon lose sight of. Those vignettes--his brother drowning as Charles stands paralyzed, his mother sobbing heedlessly on the boy's coffin--have an indelible poignancy. On one radiant afternoon, Charles, now nearly blinded by glaucoma, listens to and memorizes the music of a cricket, a clopping horse and, breathing softly nearby, his mother. "I hear you too, Mama," the child says...
...True liquid-crystal display is basically a larger version of the pixel-based technology used in computer monitors. Pro Each new generation of LCDs looks sharper and costs less. Con Problems with contrast and a slow refresh rate mean that for now, it's hard to make large-screen...
...opening number offered a straightforward contrast between East Asian and South Asian dance forms, with the SADC and AADT dancing side by side to the same music, each in their respective styles, but from there the expected “fusion” grew more and more complex...
Sixteen of the 35 football players who responded to the Crimson survey said “projected earnings” were primary concerns in their concentration choice. Fourteen of the 16 are economics concentrators. In contrast, only 30 athletes from the rest of the teams combined said anticipated career earnings were their primary motivation...