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...this is quite popular among many Americans. In some ways, Blair has become, in a manner of speaking, the American Prime Minister, the foil and adjunct to a President with great strengths but some obvious limitations. Where Bush is formally eloquent but informally brusque, Blair speaks extemporaneously like a skilled prosecutor, nailing down debating points with parliamentary aplomb no former Governor of Texas has ever been required to master. Where Bush is instinctually a believer in American power, Blair understands the dynamics of a Europe bound together by a web of shared sovereignty and an acquired aversion to conflict...
...Opium. There is a certain brilliance to marketing the infamy of the Golden Triangle. This is one of those rare nether regions that lives up to the swashbuckling image that its name evokes. Highways crisscrossing Chiang Rai province are still frequently bottlenecked by police checkpoints set up to foil smugglers of Burmese methamphetamine and heroin...
...principals give remarkable performances. Cassel in particular is excellent in his walking portrayal of masculine vengefulness. In the later scenes, he provides an interesting foil to Dupontel’s mild-mannered, sensitive Pierre, and Bellucci’s natural calm. Irreversible is certainly not a “character” movie, but it relies heavily on the looming generalizations it makes about its free-floating inhabitants, and about the agression inherent in male environments...
...Sunday, Stinetorf reversed the tables, defeating Austin. With only three women’s foil fencers at Harvard, Austin and Stinetorf face each other in practice on an almost daily basis. The Crimson’s other foil fencer, co-captain Liz Blase, placed 11th in the 39-person field...
...maximum of two people per school can qualify for the NCAA championship in each weapon, although Blase would have been on the bubble even if she had been eligible as one of Harvard’s top two female foil fencers...