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...teacher (Tom Cavanagh) casts Trevor in a play about a school shooting, the campus explodes into paranoia, pushing Trevor to the brink of real violence. Bang Bang is too speech-heavy, and for a movie about the danger of stereotypes, it's rife with them: meathead jocks, insensitive parents, earnest teachers. But Foster makes Trevor searingly real, a bright, eyes-averted loner who so badly wants you to think he doesn't care that you know he does. This is a flawed but unignorable trip into the terrified heart of zero-tolerance America. --By James Poniewozik
...squinty-eyed and with a rich Irish accent, the affable Heaney delivered to a capacity crowd at Jefferson Hall on “Sixth Sense, Seventh Heaven: How Some Poems Got Written.” What began as a highly anecdotal speech about the process of composition became an earnest defense of poetry and the arts in the face of world conflict...
Undeterred, the PR representative informed me in earnest tones that this skin care line was so revolutionary that it had the potential to take five years off my appearance. Inspecting the assembled ensemble of toners, astringents and masques, I did the math. Did I really want to spend fifteen minutes a day applying all this gunk only to look fourteen again? Suddenly, all the angst and agony of my early teens came flooding back. Putting aside the nightmarish aesthetic trifecta of braces, pimples and school uniforms, there were also the socially horrific memories of gym class, trigonometry and that embarrassingly...
...want the work of reconstructing CID to begin in earnest...
...chair the corporate governance committee. Better Luck For The Irish Allied Irish will sell Allfirst, the troubled subsidiary where the company uncovered a $691 million fraud in February, to U.S. bank M&T for $3.1 billion. Vivendi's Dash For Cash The Vivendi fire sale began in earnest, as the group sold its Italian pay TV arm Telepiú; to News Corp. for €1 billion. The company confirmed it would also sell its publishing, PC games and overseas telecom units. Gassing Up Indonesia In one of the largest-ever investments in Indonesia, state-owned Pertamina and British Petroleum signed...