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After Murphy used his hook the final time in the third, Fitzpatrick did show flashes of his usual offensive brilliance. But switching quarterbacks threw the offense off its usual rhythm, and Fitzpatrick failed to live up to his reputation as the comeback...
Next time, Murphy needs to realize the hand that’s currently feeding him is Schires—and keep his own hands away from the hook...
...peers. “It’s appropriate to be inclusive,” says Chapman, but inclusiveness is also “a strategy to evade…issues of responsibility and guilt. Even when people face terrible choices, no one is quite let off the hook...
...park tends to attract more users than the pool. When Kara and Jesse Cox moved from wireless Waxahachie, Texas, to Austin so Jesse could finish his last semester at the University of Texas, the first thing they did after pulling up in their 28-ft. mobile home was hook up the electricity and charge the computer (which Jesse, a physics major, built himself). EverQuest came even before the water connection. "Our lives are on that computer," admits Jesse. "Being young, we have to have our Internet." Although he kids Kara about her gaming addiction, he spends a fair amount...
Most horror films are escapist larks: they scare you, but are removed enough to be fun. This uncomfortable thriller, however, doesn’t let audiences off the hook. Mark Lewis (Boehm) is a psychopath, who thrives on killing women with a knife attached to a camera tripod so he can film their expressions as they die. Although Psycho is similarly themed—psychotic killer motivated by childhood humiliations—the killings are viewed through the killer’s camera, making the audience (or at least me) feel like the pleasure of watching horror movies isn?...