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...condemnations of our veterans' healthcare system may be that a Southern California VA hospital is a suitable location for filming a Rob Zombie movie. The much tattooed 42-year-old director's last effort, the mordantly witty 2005 horror pic The Devil's Rejects, revealed the metal singer/director's knack for coaxing a certain grisly charm out of his homicidal antiheroes and evoking an unexpected creepiness out of the sun-bleached California desert. Now the horror auteur is taking a stab at Michael Myers, the masked psychopath from John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, which Zombie is retooling for an August...
...this book is about failure,” says Boyd. “I didn’t make records that sold millions and millions of records. A lot more people are into my music now.”Still, Boyd had a knack for forcefully marketing music, and luck wasn’t the only factor in his success. “I did always have an idea of how to do it, but it was a very sure idea that came between me and the group, not the marketing department,” says Boyd...
...wearied of the nonsense of the spotlight but never of football's simple joys. Losing well was a knack he never mastered, and he hated himself when he played poorly. At those times, or when injury stopped him surfing for a while, he could sulk with the best of them. Life after football will test him. He is gone before he was ready, leaving behind a game that will be the lesser for his absence...
...College Dean’s Office lifted its ban on students operating for-profit businesses on campus. Prior, startups had to keep day-to-day operations out of dorms or their founders would face the Administrative Board. The wild successes of Sparknotes and Facebook proved that students had a knack for Internet novelties. Just this fall, the University allowed Dormaid’s laundry service to compete with HSA?...
...filled this role for Harvard last year, finishing with 18 goals, including several important scores down the stretch. At the beginning of this season, it seemed that senior Kevin Du would be the next go-to player, having garnered accolades for his flashy play and his knack for the net. But Du finished with just five goals on the season, gathering most of his points from his 20 assists...