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...whole story in itself, aging as gracefully as its subject. Leaping three decades from where the first film ended, the movie brings Spanish and Catholic threats to England’s Protestant shores in 1585. Spain’s Philip II (Jordi Mollà), Elizabeth’s counterpart, embodies the fundamentalist threat of the age and remains a lurking presence throughout, though the two leaders never meet face-to-face in the film. At home, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton of “In America”) hungrily eyes Elizabeth’s throne, while the arrival...
...like a walk-off home run kind of thing.” The well-matched league foes showed off their defense in the first half and offense in the second. The game remained scoreless through the first frame as Harvard goalkeeper junior Kylie Stone registered two saves and Cornell counterpart Shannon Prescott tallied three. In the second half, the two teams traded goals twice. “This was our most complete game of the season,” Caples said. “No one ever plays a perfect game but we were very solid and really stepped...
...certainly shares some of Eva Pern's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province and then President. And like her U.S. counterpart, Fernàndez is a senator who's making a run for the top job on her own record. One big difference: Fernàndez consistently records a 20-percentage-point lead in opinion polls. "And don't forget," she says with a lighthearted note of competitiveness, "that...
Still, there’s a definite sell-high air around Yale, the only ranked Ivy team, right now, and letting a miserable Georgetown team hang around for four quarters last Saturday did little to inspire confidence. Cornell is the apparent buy-low counterpart, but until the Big Red figures out how to win on the road (0-4 away from Ithaca last season, 2-7 the last two), the smart money stays on the blue team...
President Bush must serve up a pretty convincing hamburger: Ever since his Kennebunkport cookout with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, the French have been rattling sabers at Iran with a ferocity that must please even the most Francophobe hawks within the Administration...