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...encouraging is that we did better indoors than the Harvard team last year, which was without a doubt more talented and deeper,” Ezekwueche said. “Now we have to focus on getting more people healthy, on board and scoring so that we can grab a more respectable finish at Heps outdoors given the composition of and numbers on our team...
...British when they came here referred to Maori as New Zealanders. I'm sure he doesn't want everybody to become Maori. I personally don't want to be like him." Shop owner Wilson is more easygoing. She doesn't like Brash: "He's just trying to grab votes." But she thinks of herself as "New Zealander first, Maori second. Three-quarters of my extended family are Pakeha. Whether we're black, green, yellow or blue, we're all equal. At the end of the day I say, Kiwis, mate...
...consortium of A-Films (the Netherlands), Cinéart (Belgium), Frenetic Films (Switzerland), Haut et Court (France) and Lucky Red (Italy) - have been launched to help get more films into more territories. Part of the challenge comes from a film culture that has resisted commercialization. In order to grab a bigger slice of Europe's box-office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors and producers need to better understand the business of moviemaking. "It's the perpetual struggle between art and commerce," says Colin Vaines, executive vice president of European production and development at Miramax. "In Europe...
...about duck boats, even those that are not strictly duckish? Well, to begin with, there’s the problem of Duck Hunt. Who’s to say that Nintendo-addled children of the early 1980s, so frequent on the College campus, wouldn’t grab gray-plastic rifles and start shooting at the pixellated fowl they imagine they see flying by their newest form of transit...
...these weekly [magazines] like Kerrang! and NME,” Smith offers as explanation for their overseas popularity. “They have the ability to report and look into these bands that perhaps [magazines in the] U.S. aren’t doing because they only want to grab the big things that are happening. They want to talk about the Queens of the Stone Age and the Foo Fighters—the big bands as opposed to a lot of the smaller bands that are just as good but aren’t getting as much attention because [they...