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...Which grants it a certain kinship with Catch and Release, a romantic non-comedy - it's really more in the mode of an old-fashioned "women's picture" - in which a woman named Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) finds her wedding day turning into a funeral for her fiance, suddenly lost in an accident. For reasons best known to her, she continues to hang around his bachelor bungalow in Boulder, Colorado, mourning his passing with two former roommate (Kevin Smith and Sam Jaeger) and a visiting pal named Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), who turns out to be much nicer than he first...
...characters of “Prodigal Summer” cannot escape the fact that, in some indefinable way, humans are not the same as other species. Kingsolver reveals that important things reside in the gap between what is human and what is wild: love, kinship, pride. Throughout the novel, each character confronts this gap, some with more success than others...
Worse, by breaking up Iraq, the U.S. had unwittingly handed a belated victory in the earlier Iran-Iraq war to the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. No state stood to gain more from democracy in Iraq, since the country's Shi'ite majority felt close ties of kinship to Iran. And no state in the region was more explicitly committed to the destruction of America's ally Israel...
...many girlssaw this 1948 English musical melodrama and, no matter what the heroine's fate, decided to put on ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...excerpts from the essay and distributed them on the University’s campus along with a flyer proclaiming the dangers of interracial sex. There were also aspersions cast on the information presented in the article.For instance, Walt and Mearsheimer characterize Israeli citizenship as a “blood kinship,” but as Dershowitz and Cohen, among others, pointed out, there are 1.3 million Arab-Israeli citizens.Dershowitz also claims that the authors mischaracterize the Israeli and American peace proposal made to the Palestinians at the 2000 Camp David summit as overly meager.In April, he published his own working...