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...epics like, say, The Ipcress File. But Director Penn, whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...nearly 300 pages, Douthat offers us no solution, no recourse for reforming the system he finds so corrupt. The question hangs over the book like a dagger: Where do we go from here? Our current meritocracy doesn’t work perfectly, but it works well. After all, Harvard got Douthat where he wants to be—he’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic Monthly and the author of a potentially bestselling book. He can’t be too upset about...
...missed Dartmouth free throws later, and feeding off of a frenzied crowd, Shana Franklin threw the most important Harvard dagger of the game—a three-pointer at 4:42 from a Cserny assist that gave the Crimson its first lead since the first half...
...more Ethan Hunt, and certainly no more xXx. Using technology as an insulating barrier makes sense from a certain viewpoint, but Keefe argues that the government’s reliance on signals intelligence at the expense of human intelligence—“old fashioned, cloak and dagger, man-on-the-ground spying”—has ominous implications for national security in the present...
Though most of Norman’s positive play consisted of relative intangibles, Norman got the attention of the entire crowd when he slammed the dagger into Columbia’s heart. Cusworth rebounded a missed free throw and fired the ball cross-court to a wide-open Norman, who caught the ball and threw down a spectacular two-hand reverse jam to electrify the crowd and give the Crimson a 65-58 lead with 3:45 remaining...