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...month later, Reid names a squad of 36 players and calls them to a meeting at the National Football Center, a grand name for a spartan two-story building set amid rice fields in the Bangkok boondocks. "It feels like a rehab clinic," grumbles one of Reid's staff. On the desk in front of him is the squad roster, a pristine copy of a book called English-Thai: The Fun Way to Learn the Language and a three-page cheat sheet of footballing phrases in Thai. Reid studies it. "Poo rack sah bra too," he says hesitantly...
...This out-of-the-box idea is one of four projects that received $100,000 through the Grand Challenges Exploration Initiative, a project backed by the Gates Foundation...
...also an overarching plot involving efforts to “assimilate” mixed children of Aboriginals and whites as well as a climactic raid on Darwin by the Japanese.Clearly, “Australia” is an ambitious movie, and it soars and stirs when operating on a grand scale. Luhrmann, whose past credits include “Moulin Rouge” and “Romeo + Juliet,” delivers beautiful, jaw-dropping imagery that seems to spill forth from the screen. A stampede of a thousand cattle rushing towards the edge of a cliff, a desert...
...first place I learned that.” With “Defiance,” Zwick hopes to show his audience a new aspect of both his own filmmaking and the genre of Holocaust movies. “I think it’s a bit grand to think you can change people’s thinking altogether, but that we might add some necessary complexity to their understanding of something about which they thought they knew something is the wish...
...young team, and we’ve been going through some growing pains and learning about how hard it is to win on the road.” The Fighting Sioux are coming into the game after skating against another ECAC foe, Cornell, in a two-game series at Grand Forks. North Dakota took the first game 7-3, only to fall to Cornell by a score of 2-1 the next night. North Dakota, which averages 2.57 goals per game compared with a 3.57 goals-against average, is entering Cambridge determined to make its physicality and size a hassle...