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...possibly still love him. It takes him about a nano-second to find her and about the same amount of time to discover that she has been ill used by fate. Soderbergh and Attanasio notice that there is a rough analogy between this pair and Casablanca's Rick and Ilsa--except (and it's a big exception) that Lena, unlike Ilsa, has become hard, manipulative and utterly selfish. Also, she doesn't just need ditsy letters of transit. She's involved in the more cosmic issue of the competition between the Russians and the Americans for the services of German...
...unbroken often leads nowhere. Singin' in the Rain was not really improved by being turned into a splashy Broadway musical. Casablanca will not be improved if it is remade with John Travolta as Rick and Brooke Shields as Ilsa, with Prince singing As Time Goes By. Come to think of it, would baseball be improved if we speeded it up for today's busy audiences by ending the game after six innings? Do we really need a new national anthem, with a tune that can be sung and words that can be remembered...
Ever since Michelangelo proclaimed, “Cowabunga, dude!” in one of the earlier runs of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the surfing community has amassed a fringe group of followers. But with the development of the Harvard Surf Club and the Ivy League Surf Association (ILSA) over the past three years, the once-niche sport might finally move out of the sewer world and through the Ivy gates...
Fresh off the team’s second-place performance this past weekend at the Third Annual ILSA Fall Invitational, club president Ryan S. Alfred ’05 was giddy as he spoke about the recent popularization of surfing in the ivory towers...
...ILSA expires in August, and the oil industry, including members of the Oasis consortium involved in Libya, has been lobbying hard to persuade Congress and the administration that it should not be renewed. But renewal has been gaining political support in recent months, and a number of experts following the legislation expect Congress to move in that direction later this year. That, together with Bush's demands on Libya, makes it unlikely that American companies will be allowed to exploit Libyan oil any time soon. As a result, even if Wintershall fails to strike a deal, rights to exploit...