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...McGrath) in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is the surest money-getter this year short of an email to Obama supporters. The first film sent four denizens of New York City's Central Park Zoo - Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) - across several seas to an island off Africa. Madagascar was Oz with even more monkeys. It was smart, sitcommy and nicely congested. The sequel is more of the agreeable, strenuous same...
...with 5:23 to play in the first quarter.A number of Van Niel’s runs came on a new formation, with Van Niel lined up at tailback and junior defensive tackle Matt Curtis at fullback.“That’s what we appropriately call our hippo team,” Murphy said. “Matt brings a real physical, destructive type of force at fullback, and then Noah brings 250 pounds, and you get 260 pounds leading 250.”The Leopards took a 10-7 lead into the second quarter, but Van Niel...
...Christians became more powerful, theologians starting with St. Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, expanded the little there was into theories of empire and social good such as "tranquility of order," which the saint thought the state could attain through tempered justice...
Finland's Jansson started writing books about the hippo-like Moomins in 1946, but their first appearance in English was as a comic strip that ran in the London Evening News between 1953 and 1958. It was syndicated then, but has never been published since - until now. In the comic strip, the Moomin family strays far from the tranquil charms of Moominvalley: on the French Riviera, Moominpappa gets drunk and Moomin's sweetheart, the Snork Maiden, is seduced by a toothy film star. But then the hattifatteners appear - mute, sock-like animals that grow from seeds and chase after electric...
...Augustine of Hippo writes in ¨City of God,¨ another standard of the Gov 1060 syllabus, “The greater the joy, the greater the pain that precedes...