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...some science-fiction parable, here it's the children who sense a mutation in their daddy - to them he's now an alien creature - a foreboding that is complicated by their growing affection for Tommy. Sheridan has shown before, especially in his semi-autobiographical In America, his gift for directing children, and he gets wonderfully complex shadings from the two girls, Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare. It's the kids who trigger the movie's painful denouement, in which Sam realizes that his searing guilt doesn't fit in a home that was happy until he returned...
...resources needed to feed China's economic engine, Beijing began an assiduous campaign to win foreign hearts and minds by financing stadiums, hospitals and lavish government offices. The Foreign Ministry in East Timor was built courtesy of the Chinese, while Guinea-Bissau's marble-accented parliament building was a gift from Beijing...
Since a ten-dollar limit was imposed on all gifts, students were encouraged to be creative in their searches for the perfect (cheap) gift, said Bloom, who gave her lucky target a photoshopped picture. One student was given, well, a box of tissues—perhaps the fact that his Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa is competing against him for a leadership position sheds some light on that particular transaction...
...addition, around this time of the season every year, the spirit chair of the orchestra sends out an e-mail written many years ago by a student whose Secret Santa had cruelly neglected to buy him a gift, according to Bloom...
...appears that the second-ranked Harvard women’s squash team (4-0, 3-0 Ivy) is not in the holiday spirit, demonstrated by the fact that it did not gift sixth-ranked Cornell women’s squash team (2-3, 0-3 Ivy) a single game on Saturday morning...