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Intelligence authorities around the world have managed to foil a number of terrorist plots in recent years. Some major successes...
...character. He’s been directed to deliver a subtle performance in the extreme; so subtle in fact that he’s largely left staring deadpan while the action clumsily revolves around him. And while Robbie Coltrane, as Abberline’s sidekick, provides a competent foil for Depp’s malaise, quoting Shakespeare with pithy aplomb, Heather Graham does nothing to alter this reviewer’s opinion that she shouldn’t be allowed to act ever again. Ever...
...synthesizers replaced the fun, hook-filled albums of the past as the band ventured into their most ambitious and adult project. Dealing with death, depression, divorce and emotional numbness, Folds used the character of Messner (who, unbeknownst to Folds was in fact a legendary mountain climber) as a personal foil on the semi-autobiographical album. It was an unapologetic masterpiece, with Folds finally declaring on “Mess” that “I don’t believe in God / So I can’t be saved / All the low things / I’ve learned...
...missile strikes on camps associated with Bin Laden in Afghanistan and on a factory linked with him (possibly erroneously) in the Sudan. But those strikes did little to impair Bin Laden's operational ability, and the U.S. reverted to containing his operations through cooperation with Arab intelligence agencies to foil planned attacks and round up and prosecute the perpetrators of the embassy bombings. Washington also sought to use Pakistan's close relationship with the Taliban to press Bin Laden's hosts into extraditing him, but to no avail...
...with this volatile market, their editorial content works like the "fluffer" on pornographic film sets, trying desperately to keep the spent mainstream superhero books going for one more round. They perpetuate a view of the medium as a form of childish investment, a dead end, rather than a foil for adult, artistic expression with endless possibilities...