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...their abandoned sons. The need for parental closure drove the characters played by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (which took the runner-up Grand Prix), Sam Shepard in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, and William Hurt in James Marsh's The King. A similar theme, of past sins haunting and tainting the present, was the preoccupation of several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty...
...timeless and revered role. June Harting, whose son Jay, West Point Class of '98, was killed with his classmate and friend Steven Frank at a checkpoint in Iraq last month, summed the West Point mentality the best: "What people don't understand," she told me by phone as she drove to New York to bury her son in West Point's cemetery, "is that these kids are like from a hundred years ago. Their values are from a different...
...Minnesota native drove in the second run in Game One on a one-out single to left field in the fourth, scoring Mann to manufacture a 2-0 cushion. In Game Two, he thumped an RBI single to center in the seventh, tying the contest...
After a strikeout by Klimkiewicz, Mann drove a double off of the wall in left-center field—just a few feet shy of a grand slam—to plate two runs and give the Crimson a 4-1 lead...
...Minnesota native drove in the second run in Game 1 on a one-out single to left field in the fourth, scoring Mann to manufacture a 2-0 cushion. In Game 2, he then thumped an RBI single to center in the seventh, tying the contest...