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...every one of them for them to be ready to play,” Murphy said. “It’s not going to be like it was the last two years, with such veteran quarterbacks, with Chris Pizzotti. On the other hand, both kids are more Liam [O’Hagan]-like in that they’re very athletic guys, they’re guys that can beat you with their feet.”Winters and Simpson both suffered from the absence of the headliners of Harvard’s receiving corps...
...nearly 10,000 km away, in a Southeast Asian country with roughly the same population (60 million), Sir Liam might have some sympathizers. Thailand has one of the world's highest rates of alcohol consumption, and all the burgeoning social ills that accompany it: domestic violence, sexual assault, street fights, teenage binge-drinking and alcohol-related disease...
...would buy Sir Liam Donaldson a pint these days? Not many Brits, I expect. The chief medical officer's proposal to tackle the great British scourge of binge drinking - a minimum price of 75 cents per unit of alcohol - was shot down by almost everyone from 10 Downing Street to the bloke propping up the bar at the Slug and Lettuce...
...hoping that new laws will fix an old problem. While Brits debated minimum pricing, Thais were arguing the merits of prohibiting alcohol sales during Songkran, or Thai New Year, which runs April 13-15 and is the country's most important annual holiday. This is a bit like Sir Liam banning booze at Christmas. Better known among tourists as the Water Festival, Songkran is famous for mass water-pistol fights and - with millions of Thais visiting their families - insanely busy highways. During last year's festival, 360 people died in road accidents and 4,794 were injured. The main cause...
...immediacy. He does not toy with the viewer’s emotions; rather he demands that the audience be repulsed, distressed, and deeply moved.After these visceral shocks, McQueen moves in the film’s second part to a lengthy conversation between Sands and his longtime friend, Father Lohan (Liam Cunningham, “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”). Here, as in the rest of the film, McQueen withholds no information from his audience, instead using Lohan to clarify the straightforward events of the plot. Sands’ death is inevitable; there are no plot twists...