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Another similarity: the self-assurance of the Clint character, an almost religious trust in first impulses, is reflected in Eastwood's method as a film director. Others take years to nurse a project; Eastwood revved up Gran Torino in June, started shooting in mid-July and had his final cut by the end of October. This cool efficiency endears him to screenwriters (if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites) and most actors (if he likes Take 1, he prints it and goes to the next scene). Hey, it's only a movie. And often...
Like eggnog or reruns of it's a wonderful life, college football fans' grumbling over the Bowl Championship Series (BCS)--the muddled method by which the sport anoints its national champion--has become a December rite. The chorus of critics includes Barack Obama, who opined in his first postelection interview that "any sensible person" would favor a playoff system to determine who's No. 1. And that was before the Oklahoma Sooners sped past Texas in this year's race to the BCS title game despite losing to the Longhorns 45-35 in October--a result purists say should logically...
...point lead and was home free.Tay finished the game with nine points and nine assists. Senior Katie Rollins added eight points and six boards to the cause.Its sustained intensity helped the Crimson put its transition offensive on display.“There’s a method to our madness,” Delaney-Smith said.The win indicates that Harvard may be hitting its stride, which comes as good news as the team faces five games over the next two weeks.“We are really starting to mesh as a team, and chemistry, on and off the court...
...resident demanded to see the raw data, expressing skepticism about the validity of the balancing method. Another said he was confused about the “three-tier system” that survey respondents used to register their preferences. “I don’t know what a tier is in this case,” said the resident...
...dominate the initial coverage and then let the story die a natural death. Normally, "within days the story starts to blow over and there's reader fatigue with it so they move onto to the next story in the news cycle," Bandurski says. "It's very effective." But that method is trickier with an issue like the taxi strikes, which are the result of long-standing grievances - sometimes going back a decade - that have been left largely unaddressed. Unlike other protests, these strikes are not directed specifically against the communist party, which may also explain why the official media...