Word: dakotas
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...Chris Weitz's film version of the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is meant to be a blockbuster for all major moviegoing demographics, from six to 16. Wreathed in lavish CGI effects, The Golden Compass traces the quest of the 12-year-old Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) to find a missing friend and, eventually, to save her world. On the way to her destiny she's imprisoned by a glamorous vamp (Nicole Kidman), befriended by a talking polar bear (the talking is done by Ian McKellen) and accompanied by her own Jiminy Cricket - a cute...
...Kidman has played the bitch goddess before, though never with such silky pleasure in being malevolent. If there's a casting revelation, it's the lead actress, who was just 12 when she was chosen for Lyra, her first professional role. Dakota Blue Richards: it sounds like the name of a second-tier rock star's kid. But she's an actual English girl (with an American mother), and a knockout. Her look is both wary and sleepy, as if she'd just been poked awake from a bad dream. There's an intelligent insolence about Richards, suggesting...
...John F. Kennedy ’40 that layered Brokaw’s narration over dramatic music and blurred visuals. Conceptually, Brokaw’s presentation unfolded in a similar way. He began with personal narrative, describing how he spent his youth on an army base in South Dakota, the son of working-class parents. He became the first member of his family to enter college and later married a woman he had known since he was fifteen. When he was offered a job at the number-one NBC affiliate in the United States, he flew South and found himself...
Scientists unearthed the preserved remains of a 67 million-year-old hadrosaur in North Dakota, one of only a tiny handful of dinosaurs ever found with evidence of skin. The skin of this herbivore is not just an impression in rock but actually intact, with muscles and organs probably preserved within. The discovery has already changed scientists' understanding of how the giant reptile lived...
...expose those back home to a part of the world that has become increasingly important. Already, Ivy League institutions such as Harvard, Yale and Columbia are running joint courses with local schools or offering independent short programs. George Washington University and the University of North Dakota are also tying up with Indian schools. Georgia Institute of Technology has begun talks with one of the state governments and regulators to see if it can legally get around the general ban on foreign universities' setting up shop in India. If successful, it would become the first American university to offer graduate degrees...