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...renders her statement perfectly defensible. It makes clear that she has been proud of her country all along, but now that a black man (who just happens to be her husband) has a serious chance to be President, she is really proud. I share her pride on this account. Martin D. Carcieri, San Francisco
Compared to what Martin McDonagh has put his characters through on stage, the ones in his first feature film have it easy. Over the years, the playwright has turned brothers against brothers, pushed a daughter to murder her mother, drowned a priest, broken countless hearts and killed several small animals...
...know about hip-hop.I thought such a goal might be reachable—until my comp directors unveiled “The Chart”: an enormous, carefully drawn spiderweb of black spoken culture from the 1950’s to the mid 1990’s. Martin Luther King, Jr. led to rapper-poet Saul Williams led to Grandmaster Flash through an intimidating network of chutes and ladders. Complicating matters, modern hip-hop has a rich history of allusions, invented mythologies, and shorthands. These can be sort of boring, e.g. the aforementioned EPMD (stands for Eric and Parrish...
...pedophile priests, but with members of the church hierarchy, provoked surprise. "That is significant, that's new," said Fr. Thomas Reese, senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center, who famously lost a previous job because of Cardinal Ratzinger. "John Paul II never said that." Adds Fr. James Martin, at Reese's old shop, the Jesuit magazine America, "I am proud that he is looking this squarely in the face...
...than 10 minutes into the half, Princeton went on a surge of seven unanswered goals, four coming from Princeton offensive threats junior Holly McGarvie and freshman Lizzie Drumm. “Princeton came out hard in the second half and we didn’t retaliate,” Martin said. “We needed to come out and push as hard as we did in the first half.” With the Tigers up 16-8, the Crimson got on the board for the final time. With five minutes left to play senior Natalie Curtis launched...