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...trial and the underlying fear was that a heavy sentence for the former action-film star would provoke violent outcries. Today, however, though Estrada received a sentence of life imprisonment, his fans kept calm, taking some comfort, it seems, in the fact that the penalty doesn't mean life in a prison cell...
When media tycoon Rupert Murdoch gained enough support to acquire The Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones this summer, the media speculated frantically over what the move would mean for the venerable newspaper. Was the acquisition one more step towards Murdoch’s eventual media monopoly? Would the conservative mogul destroy The Journal’s objectivity? Would the acquisition spell the end of The Journal as we know it? We find much of this hype is ill-reasoned. Murdoch is at heart a businessman and as The Journal’s owner, he will...
...haven't often found such a cockeyed, clear-eyed justification for nostalgia - which for Maddin can mean both homesickness and sick-of-homeness. His movie, whatever the man in the TIFF audience thought, has a passion and poignancy that can come only from an artist who loves his city, and its people, and his family, for its failings no less than for its chilly charms. An aging prairie town that has lost some of its grandest relics, Winnipeg is like any person, middle-age or older, who cherishes what he once had every bit as much as he regrets what...
...through 10 scale, but at Harvard we operate in binary: They’re either a one or a zero, so it’s either yes or never. But trust us; this will make justifying things to your friends the next morning a whole lot easier; I mean come on, he was definitely a one. But when you do need good service, try the Queen’s Head, and don’t forget Brain Break for late night satisfaction. Unfortunately getting a Fly-By during the day won’t be an option until you?...
...likely to send the audience home happy and satisfied. I guess it's just the contrarian in me that wonders if real corporations are so awful, and the stalwart souls and whistle blowers who work for them so numerous, as they are in the Hollywood films that mean to expose the one and praise the other...