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...occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
...reader, happen to be scanning these words at sunset on Saturday, know that the cast is taking one last bow, and the audience - many, I'll warrant, who have seen the trilogy before and have returned for a last glimpse of the monument - is rising to salute the heroic craft of the author and actors...
Rose and Morris have three games left in their college careers, and with the opponents remaining, won’t have a game so statistically magnificent as this past weekend. But I wouldn’t put it past them to put up huge numbers and heroic performances on the way to the Ivy championship—in fact, that’s almost guaranteed...
...Ryan Fitzpatrick era and its desperate, heroic QB crashes for first-downs-and-more will wait a year. The sophomore has shown that it will be a show worth watching. But this seems the only satisfying way for the Rose-Fitzpatrick controversy to resolve itself. Rose, the captain who took a semester off to continue his injury-extended career in Crimson, never could have imagined fighting injuries and a stunningly effective understudy to keep...
...people have no access to basic sanitation; and 854 million adults, 543 million of them women, are illiterate." Rieff expresses his admiration for the humanitarians--Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)--and other organizations, but he is ultimately skeptical that even their most heroic efforts can do much to change a bad world growing worse...