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...strategic general, has Er Hu locked up so that he cannot protest the massacre of the unarmed soldiers. Lau’s desperate clawing at his chains and guttural shouts as he is locked up express the agony of Er Hu remarkably well, and the look of stunned defeat on his face when he is finally released is painful to watch. Li plays the part of General Pangg in an incredibly nuanced way, betraying his character’s seemingly stoic face as he makes the decision to kill the men with desperately conflicted eyes and a single tear that...
...Palin is making time to help a roster of Republican candidates between now and November. She laughs off the notion that rough language might incite further acts of aggression against Democrats; instead, she's put crosshair markings on her Facebook page to identify lawmakers she has targeted for defeat in the fall election. Quippy and tart, she mocks the "lamestream media" for distracting voters by distorting GOP positions. And by carefully controlling her own visibility, she has become more irresistible as cable-news and viral content...
...aspect that has cost Harvard dearly this season is allowing opponents to string together crushing runs. Georgetown used a 6-1 run to help it defeat the Crimson, 13-12, Brown was able to fend off Harvard, 13-11, with a 5-1 first quarter, and Duke’s 8-0 first quarter was all the offense it needed in defeating the Crimson...
Bouncing back after a big loss is always tough, but the No. 15 Harvard men’s lacrosse team faces an especially tough task as it looks to rebound from its worst defeat in three years...
...officials in Iraq are adamant, however, that there are no parallels between now and then. "As long as the Iraqi people continue to reject violence, al-Qaeda will defeat themselves," says Lieut. Colonel Eric Bloom, a U.S. military spokesman. On Monday, another U.S. military spokesman and two U.S. commanders called me up to insist that there will not be a security devolution to the bad old days when bodies of Sunnis and Shi'ites littered the streets...