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...York Times about the rare white Chinese river dolphin finally driven "functionally extinct" after surviving for 20 million years, and then I look at my knuckles. They, too, are white. In the midst of this low-decibel bedlam, how can anyone concentrate long enough to read anything? Except, up there on the screen, the crawl. Got... to... focus... on... the... crawl...
...We’re a much better shooting team than that, but [the players] let [the loss] get under their skin,” she said.“They know how good they can be, because they’ve shown it in every game, except for this one,” she added...
...This gives Hollywood three films to see and debate, Others may be added: Babel, Dreamgirls, Pedro Almodovar's Volver - maybe the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine. That could be a dark horse like last year's Crash, which all the critics' groups except Chicago's ignored, the better to celebrate Brokeback Mountain. The field's more open this year. In the New York Film Critics' voting, the 12 awards went to 11 different films; only The Queen won two. And though we weren't thinking about it, the 11 films had 10 different distributors; only Warner Bros. had two winners...
...term interrupted. But some houses have seen a dearth of applicants. As of the original application deadline of midnight Friday, no one had declared candidacy from Adams, Cabot, Dunster, or Leverett. As a result, the CEB decided to extend the deadline another 24 hours, according to Drake. All houses except for Leverett now have candidates running, Drake said, adding that he thought the initial lack of candidates indicated poor communication, and not lack of interest. “I’m mystified by Leverett,” he said. “I don’t know what...
...More than even the question of experience, the toughest challenge of all may be turning all of the buzz around Obama into an actual campaign. "The question is, where do go from here," said D'Allesandro." At the book-signing, one woman said she loved Obama's speech, except for the parts about religion; he discusses his work in his 20s as a community organizer at churches and how his famous line (and book title) "the audacity of hope" actually came from his pastor, and she said she felt this was a subject that shouldn't be discussed in polical...