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...Murphy boasts a senior signal-caller and an explosive receiving corps, has sophomore Cheng Ho and freshman Gino Gordon learning on the job at tailback, and it’s the same formula. Will it be good enough to outlast the one-dimensional but dominant Bulldogs...
...packed houses even two months after its release, and "Chak De India," a Punjabi phrase meaning "Go India!" has become a trendy catchphrase across the country. "Everything about the film is different," says well-known film critic Vinayak Chakravorty. "The script, direction, treatment, all stray from the usual formula. The result is a good film, which is what audiences increasingly want...
...audiences in smaller towns still want the usual fare, and they make up the majority of the 4 billion film tickets sold in India every year. Chak De India may be an unexpected hit, but the box office king so far this year is Partner, a straight-out Bollywood formula with big funding, big stars and, yes, song and dance...
...assistant coaching position at Duke University, as well as head coaching jobs at Seton Hall and, most recently, the University of Michigan, where he coached for six seasons before being fired in March. “It’s our first summer to get indoctrinated into a different formula and format of recruiting,” he says. “But I certainly feel that we were able to get off to a tremendous start.”Ready or not, Amaker and his crew hit the ground running, traveling to find talented young athletes to compose...
...right-wing politicians to condemn him. Grass last year wrote Walesa and the mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamwicz, to explain why he had taken so long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective," he wrote. Mayor Adamowicz, who later admitted that he had agonized over what he would do if Grass failed to find the right words...