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...show--after at least a decade of painstaking observation and analysis--that canine play is actually a complex social interaction in which the participants constantly signal their intentions and check to make sure their behavior is correctly interpreted. Dogs that cheat--promising a playful bite but delivering a harsh one, for example--tend to be ostracized...
...inspire anguish or disappointment, but when they are uttered by the steward conducting the draw at Henley, and they are being used to describe the crew that will race against Cambridge in the first round of the Ladies’ Challenge plate, they take on a new and very harsh meaning...
Frankly, all that plodding about gets a little, well, plodding. On the other hand, there's something noble about the birds' dutifulness, about the mothers' response to a chick's death and about director Jacquet's refusal to impose human emotions on his subjects. Above all, the harsh blue-and-white beauty of this frozen world and the black-and-white birds assiduously heeding their ancient instincts--which bring life to a place where, in all logic, it should not exist--are very moving. It's a gentle film about somewhat alien beings, who entertain us by creating instead...
...scheduled, in the next few years the court could also find itself revisiting the issue of federal mandatory criminal-sentencing guidelines. In January the court ruled that the guidelines, nearly two decades old, were unconstitutional and need only be considered advisory by judges, a decision that has drawn harsh criticism from Republicans in Congress and the Bush Administration...
Though Israeli newspapers reacted to the report with headlines like EARTHQUAKE IN BANKING, there were no runs on banks or other financial disruptions. Since many Israelis blamed top bank officials for the 1983 crisis, the implementation of Bejski's harsh recommendations would probably increase public confidence in the financial system...