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...been informative, he has not gotten a lot out of them. “They’ve been a little bit boring and redundant. I happened to know everything that they were saying and I think that the other students did too,” Tainsh said. However, Loretta Kim ’99, a freshman proctor, said that while the sessions do repeat information that freshmen already know, they are designed to reinforce certain messages. “It is very different learning the information off-campus in any setting before you get here and then actually being...
...Sonny says a FEMA inspector cried when he saw the devastation of Holly Beach. Yet, his claim was ruled "insufficient damage." His wife, Loretta, says they have appealed four times, but she's giving up. She sits on the steps of their trailer, drowning a new avocado tree with water from a garden hose. There used to be 40 palm trees bordering the property, she says. Now there are two. Loretta says she's having a bad day. All she can think about is moving - but they don't have anywhere else to go. "Hurricane Rita never happened," Sonny says...
...constantly wears a suicide-bomber's belt, taking it off only to bathe, although a U.S. official questioned this. When al-Zarqawi is on the road, his car is said to be rigged to blow up at the throw of a switch. "He will never be taken alive," says Loretta Napoleoni, author of Insurgent Iraq: Al-Zarqawi and the New Generation. "He may be getting more religious, but the mujahid in him wants to go down fighting...
...Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle-class couple facing financial ruin. They act cool, but their words (and later their actions) are scalding. And Kevin Pollak, as a two-bit hustler named Michael who is trying to exploit the "special quality" of the pregnant waitress Loretta (Caroline Dhavernas), pulls off the acting feat of being disagreeable and lovable at the same time...
...script strays into strange territory like a befuddled traveler. Scenes such as the aforementioned kidnapping--Loretta's loopy/jealous stapler-salesman boyfriend Dave (Tom Barnett) throws Michael into his car's trunk--are so top-heavy with look-at-me absurdness that they nearly capsize the whole effort. Yet Yates is able to keep the proceedings afloat partly through a consistent aesthetic awash in kitschy tones...