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Reviewing the movie for Slant, Aaron Cutler goes further: "The ultimate NFL destination renders the whole thing benevolently sadistic: A white community first removes Michael from other black people, then trains him to beat them up on the field." Well, The Blind Side isn't exactly Gladiator. Oher is being paid well to do what hundreds of thousands of young men dream of. And if he had been left on the streets of Memphis, he might be dead now. But for all the closeups of black-white handshakes, the movie does have a Manichean view of the racial divide...
...brings just the right combination of aptitude and innovation for the field,” Galison said...
...very helpful for me to call a number of leaders in the field across the nation,” Faust said of the recent search for a Law School dean to replace former Dean Elena Kagan. “I think with the Business School it should be across the world...
...offense was both solid, sporting a 60.8 field goal percentage on the night, and spectacular. Three minutes into second half, Webster got the ball as he cut into the lane and delivered a no-look pass to Miller, who finished the play with a dunk...
...only come up with speed of deployment and a clearer sense of mission as strategic game changers. Later, when I asked him about what changes he had ordered for the training of the Afghan army and police - a frustrating proposition, so far - he deferred to his commanders in the field but said the new order of battle would include "a partnering situation, a one-to-one match between Afghan troops and U.S. troops" in combat, which "produces much stronger results...