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...course, he becomes a superhero—“The Great Machine”—and dons a really goofy-looking suit. With the help of his best friend and his mentor, he builds the cool gadgets that start coming to him in dreams. Zipping around the city in a jetpack, he tries to save lives. Problem is, he’s not so good at it. His wild powers end up causing more trouble than they prevent. In a typical example, he saves a kid by shouting “full stop...
...real reason Ex Machina is so addictive, however, is that its characters are likeable and multi-dimensional. Mitchell’s dreadlocked deputy mayor generates much of the political tension, arguing with Mitchell over school vouchers and gay marriage. Kremlin, Mitchell’s grizzled Russian mentor, strains their relationship by trying to get Mitchell out of politics and back on the jetpack. Even Mitchell’s mother appears for a few quirky-yet-tender moments, when the story flashes back to his childhood...
...This is an unexpected development, but the team will continue to train the same as it has been in preparation for the fall,” said Russ. “Tim has been a great mentor to me, and I’ll miss him here in the office, but I’m very happy...
...that he wasn't going to get a "real job," that he would stay close to the sea instead. That meant another go-around--you guessed it--making surfboards, and then, Sears groans as he says this, "the death knell came when I bought a commercial-fishing boat. My mentor said, 'It's time to put away the toys, son.' Of course I said, 'You're wrong. No. I can do it all.' My plan was I was to fish six months a year and surf six months a year. But over the course of the next 15 years...
...versions of how the hostilities began. The military says 14 of its troops were ambushed and killed on Feb. 7 in the town of Panamao. The rebels say that the ambush was provoked by a military offensive the day before in which a local ustadz, or religious mentor, his wife and two children died. (The military is silent on that story.) The rebels include members of Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda linked kidnap-for-ransom group, and renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim group that once fought for a separate state. The military estimates the rebels...