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Despite all of its flaws Ray remains somewhat watchable, somehow entertaining. It says all the wrong things in the wrong way but it’s still interesting—Charles led an extraordinary life. Though the film reads more like a bad history lesson than a work that complicates our understanding of a historical figure, Ray is still one to go see—if not for the music then for Foxx. His performance in Collateral is probably more worthwhile, but his Ray Charles certainly deserves wide attention...
...Even though the Dartmouth game last year was horrible, it was definitely a great lesson for us to take with us,” Fitzpatrick said. “Lucky for those of us who went through it last year, we’re going to get another chance at it, and I think it gives us that much more focus this week...
...salient lesson in adapting books for film. In an age when words can be too slavishly followed on screen, In My Father's Den is neither better nor worse than the novel, but in every sense equal to it. It's a case of a filmmaker traveling far to get close to a literary classic...
...consider the President’s decision, in August 2001, to cut funding for the effort to secure Russia’s nuclear materials. It seems pretty dumb now, but they’ve learned their lesson since then, right? Well… not really. Even today—despite Cheney’s ceaseless apocalyptic warnings about terrorists smuggling nuclear bombs into American cities—the administration has still not provided enough funds to finish securing Russian nukes before...
...Iraq war further revealed how little Bush learned from September 11. The president now blames his flawed rationale for the war on bad intelligence, but the “WMD-that-weren’t” fiasco was the second major intelligence failure on his watch. The crucial lesson of 9/11 was that U.S. intelligence needed to be overhauled immediately, before another intelligence flaw imperiled American lives. Bush failed that leadership test with catastrophic results...