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...appeal. Their characters hold secrets behind impenetrable locks. We know that the mysteries will never be solved--or will be replaced with more tantalizing ones. Yet all that matters to us is why those mysteries matter to the characters, and with how much panache and heart Abrams and crew convey their passion. "It's like hiking in a fog," Abrams says. "The closer you get, the more you see, but the more you realize the way to get there is so unexpected...
...happens, the tone and content of these films neatly bisected the mood of this year?s electorate. Moore?s documentary was angry, skeptical, wide-ranging, skipping from topic to topic, using comedy and sarcasm to convey moral rage; its hero was a grungy fat guy who ambushed his adversaries. Mel Gibson?s docudrama was stolid, bloody, humorless, remorseless, sticking to its micro-subject with macro implications, staying obsessively on point; its hero was a stern thin man who endured scourging and calumny in order to fulfill His mission. In other words, Moore embodied what the Right saw as Kerry...
...fueled by everything from close-up TV coverage to video games. "With the realistic, violent sports video games and the pervasiveness of sports on television, there's closeness, and fans feel they're actually part of this thing now," he says. "From a marketing aspect, all the major sports convey that fans are right in the middle. So they feel they should be part of the game...
...sonorous voice is familiar around the world. No matter what the crisis of the day, Kofi Annan's soft baritone always manages to convey a sense of imperturbable gravitas. Yet his calm must have been sorely tested last week when the U.N. Secretary-General learned more about the latest trouble lapping at his door. Annan had gathered a few top aides at a private site to discuss the scandal over the U.N.'s management of the oil-for-food program during the reign of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In the middle of the discussion, a staff member's cell phone...
...College to respect students’ wishes throughout the HCCR’s process. More than this, however, they also must convince the student body of the review’s importance and get more undergraduates involved in council efforts so that there actually are concrete student views to convey to HCCR officials...