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...despite the pyrotechnics, for Miller story is all. Ever since he sent Mel Gibson's disillusioned police officer Max Rockatansky down a Geelong highway in 1978, the former emergency-room doctor has claimed the mythological writings of Joseph Campbell as his cinematic touchstone. "The composite hero of the monomyth is a personage of exceptional gifts," wrote Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. "Frequently he is honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance...
...missteps in the conduct of the war. And force levels in Iraq will also be a fierce topic of debate. Bush is mulling plans to increase the 140,000 troops there in order to launch surge operations against insurgents in and around Baghdad. Key Democrats like Levin and Sen. Joseph Biden, who takes over the Foreign Relations Committee, adamantly oppose a force increase. Levin favors a phased withdrawal of U.S. soldiers, much like the recommendation of the Iraq Study Group that former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton chaired...
...Joseph Kennedy, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, suggested that Nifong could simply recuse himself from the case, allowing it to go forward without him. In the opinion of Nifong's critics, however, without him at the helm of the prosecution, there is no legitimate case to be made...
...recommended it to the Royal Court Theatre in London. In spring 2003, Terrorism debuted at the Royal Court, the Presnyakovs' first opening outside Russia. It was roundly applauded by critics - London's Guardian newspaper called it "a dazzling apocalyptic farce" that "suggests the novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller." Since then, the brothers have become the most frequently staged Russian playwrights after Anton Chekhov. "There isn't a day that their plays are not performed someplace the world over," says Judy Daish, the Presnyakov Brothers' London-based agent...
...fact, Muncie Police Chief Joseph Winkle didn't have a problem with the cash-for-waiver tactic either. From the get-go he wanted the Muncie force to be part of the new reality series because he felt it was good public relations."It was a nice way to showcase our training and put Muncie on the map," says Winkle...