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...League women’s basketball, one team has captured three or four consecutive titles four different times in league history. The shake-up of this year’s hierarchy leaves the Crimson—perched at 8-6 this season—as an all-too-dangerous dark horse in next year’s title hunt.And the previous times Harvard has strung together a series of titles—three straight from 1996-1998 and a pair in 2002 and 2003—the streak began after a vaunted freshman class had a year to grow...
...says André Lepeule, delegate general of the Federation of Poultry Industries, and some retailers say sales have dipped by twice that. No matter how often politicians publicly eat coq au vin or suprême de volaille, the French are treating chicken as if it glowed in the dark. "I froze two chickens a few weeks before the disease came to France, but once they are done that's it," says Janet Sitbon at a supermarket in Paris' Marais district. "My husband thinks I am nuts, since now all I am left with is steak." "Where it's really...
...definitely started with a good idea. The man who had it was Alan Moore, probably the greatest writer in the history of comic books. In 1982 Moore--who also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face...
...bland exterior, Paxton subtly shows the pressures of trying to be the breadwinner of a '50s-style household (that would be the 1850s) in the 21st century. And the polygamist compound where Bill grew up keeps pulling him back, Corleone fashion, from the 'burbs, driving the plot in dark, gripping directions. Stanton is perfectly cast as the pious, menacing Roman, who insists on the cut from the second store, although, legally, Roman is an investor in only the first. "There's man's law, and there's God's law," he warns, before the Hummers of his henchmen start staking...
...husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children next door to play at the neighbor's house for a change, paints her face for her husband's return before she wrestles with dinner. Spotted through her day are blessed moments of relief or dark thoughts of escape...