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...primarily an issue movie, banging home its thesis on the anvil of melodrama. It's closer to a romantic comedy. Ryan finds a kindred spirit in another high-flying exec, the sultry Alex (Vera Farmiga). As she tells Ryan, "Think of me as yourself, only with a vagina." Their relationship is affectionate, lusty and unfettered--the perfect sky alliance. It's a life Ryan loves: the pampering by flight attendants, the plush anonymity of hotel rooms. What you might call loneliness, he calls self-reliance. This is threatened by a young corporate rival (Anna Kendrick), who wants to save money...
...characters; nobody's forced into redemption. And Clooney responds to this maturity with the most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, in a way, he already lives there: he too is a traveling man with an aversion to commitment. Clooney has always ridden high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches--even a savory comedy-drama with a tart undertaste. Odds are that the great salesman's work in Up in the Air will create, among audiences and Oscar voters alike, a lot of satisfied customers...
Cervical cancer is slow growing - giving doctors time to find it - and studies show that among women in their 20s, the risk of developing cervical cancer does not increase by reducing the frequency of Pap tests to every two years. Although the HPV infection rate is high among sexually active teens and young adults, the virus is typically cleared by the woman's immune system within a year or two of infection. Few cases of HPV infection lead to cancer; when they do, the cancer may develop up to 10 to 20 years after exposure to the virus...
Harvard had no shortage of chances, first going for it on fourth and 11 from the Yale 24 midway through the second. Winters’ pass to Lorditch went high, and the Crimson faltered on the first of three missed red-zone chances...
...shouted slogans and blocked building exits. Like a scene out of the angry 1960s, students surged against barricades and briefly seized a building near the main campus quad; police used taser guns on several protesters, and arrested nearly 20. All the while, police helicopters hovered overhead, TV vans with high antennas stood ready and students played drums and strummed guitars...