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...Close Encounter,? skeleton fingers grab Samo Hung?s butt; skeleton teeth snack on his ample flesh. (It?s a nightmare, the kind the ITMFG films rarely wake up from.) You?ll need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes...
...first of Rose’s two touchdown tosses, a 15-yard strike to Morris early in the second quarter, broke a 7-7 tie and gave Morris his eighth touchdown grab...
...defender to step up and grab two assists like that is awesome,” Wheaton said. “[Fisher is] just such a phenomenal athlete. And when she gets forward like that, it’s a threat that other teams have a difficult time dealing with. She had a tough day physically, but she just fought through—she’s such a trooper...
...Lott saw an opening and he was working feverishly to grab the Senate from Daschle during the lam-duck Congress. The chamber was divided 49 Democrats to 49 Republicans with the independent Jeffords standing with the Democrats on leadership votes. But if Lott could get his hands on one of Daschle's votes, the chamber would be split 50-50 with Vice President Dick Cheney casting the tie-breaker to put Republicans in charge during the lame-duck session. Former Republican Congressman Jim Talent who beat Carnahan, was supposed to fill the unexpired term of Carnahan's dead husband...
...mess at the end of a war. Iraq is even now divided, Sunni against Shiite and everyone against the Kurds. Though a coalition government representing all the major groups sounds attractive on paper, it would only set the stage for anarchy as each region, religion and ethnicity tried to grab as much as it could. The strongest and most brutal faction will prevail absent constant outside intervention. Only the total occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces can wrest democracy from these conditions, an expensive solution that seems guaranteed to breed Iraqi anti-Americanism...