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...Even Barack Obama can't match the Super Bowl's hype. By the eve of "the world's biggest single-day sporting event," even casual fans can recite the betting line, retrace Kurt Warner's journey from an Iowa supermarket to the cusp of the Hall of Fame, or explain why the Steelers' zone-blitz scheme bedevils opponents. St. John's book is not for those casual fans. The veteran sportswriter and Wall Street Journal columnist spent a year covering the foot soldiers who prep the gridiron for glory-and who ensure the event is delivered to an electrified crowd...
...those films offered a British view of the subcontinent and its people. Slumdog has no Western intermediary onscreen to explain the native folkways to the international audience. Slumdog's major players--three sets of three kids, playing Jamal, Salim and Latika at different ages--are all Indian (though Patel was born and raised in Britain). Even if redemption awaits Jamal, the violence he and Salim witness, or perpetrate, is as gritty as that in the Brazilian urban classic City of God (2002). And with a third of its dialogue in Hindi, Slumdog would come closer than any top Oscar winner...
Remember those educational videos about photosynthesis or the American Revolution that your teachers used to show you in middle school? The videos would explain battle maneuvers through a series of dots and arrows, and for the rest of your life you'd think of the United States' war for independence as basically a very elaborate football play...
...fairness, Coffee says, Cox and his enforcement officers "were hobbled by commissioners" who wanted pre-approval before SEC enforcement officers could seek penalties. "Nobody wants to get fired for being too aggressive in their investigations," he says. "The agency is demoralized and this could explain the Madoff case...
...surprisingly, Obama's good-government backers were less than pleased to see the President, only a few days after signing the blanket ban, issue a waiver permitting William Lynn to serve as Deputy Secretary of Defense. The lobbying loophole was allowed, Administration officials explain, because Lynn is "uniquely qualified" for the job. Realists at the Pentagon and elsewhere put it slightly differently, saying the President was simply acknowledging that people who know how to run the Pentagon generally have been involved in the process...