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...Heat they spent nearly three hours in the same movie - with De Niro running a heist gang and Pacino as the pursuing cop - but their only encounters were, literally, a cup of coffee and a shootout. So there ought to be a little want-see attending Righteous Kill, a police suspenser where the two stars are finally together for a whole film...
...also responsible for this year's lamentable 88 Minutes, also starring Pacino - gives the new movie the grimy New York look and a generic intensity. Yet this is a film that missed its moment. Instead of the meeting of maestros at the top of their form, Righteous Kill has the feeling of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds facing off for the first time in an exhibition game. It's like Old Timers' Day at the Motion Picture Home...
...Kocurek, who contributed 14 digs, supplied one of several strong Crimson performances. The team’s other co-captain, junior Lily Durwood, made 26 assists. Junior Alissa Flesher hit .545—her second best performance—while sophomore Mikaelle Comrie racked up a career-high eight kills. Overall, the women’s squad hit for .125 and put up seven blocks compared to Sacred Heart’s .140 hitting percentage and six blocks. Throughout the first set, the Harvard and Sacred Heart squads jostled for the lead, tying several times. Two forced Pioneer errors followed...
...Predator drone launched five missiles at a suspected militant compound near the border with Afghanistan. The compound belonged to Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most notorious Afghan Taliban commanders based in Pakistan and a Soviet-era ally of the CIA. The Predator strike missed Haqqani, but it did kill four midlevel al-Qaeda operatives, government and militant sources told the Associated Press. It also killed as many as eight children, one of Haqqani's wives and a sister...
...already admitted the need for a fundamental change. "You cannot treat the two sides of the border as two different war zones," says Jehanzeb Raja, a retired brigadier who served in the tribal areas. "The Pakistan Army's aversion to any Predator or missile strike into Pakistan territory to kill the Taliban is tactically defeatist in essence, and strategically flawed in concept," he recently wrote in a local newspaper. "The Pakistan Army not only lacks any worthwhile real-time surveillance capability to pursue multiple targets in these remote regions, it also lacks the means to destroy these through long-range...