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...telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Particularly moving is the transformation of Simon of Cyrene, played with bitter conviction in a breakthrough performance by Jarreth Merz, who initially helps carry the cross with great reluctance, but by journey’s end is risking his own life in Christ’s defense. Perhaps the film’s most moving sequence is provided by an anonymous woman who gracefully offers Christ a bowl of water...
...certainly no saint. Unable to afford a real security force, he gave too long a leash to the armed ‘thugs’ who acted in his name. And there is reason to suspect that his government has violated civil liberties and perhaps engaged in some minor corruption. But these oft-voiced criticisms miss the point. Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected president, and the U.S. is now complicit in his overthrow by a motley rebel force led by documented human rights abusers...
...officer responded to Cambridge Hospital to assist State Police in obtaining additional information about a student who had been hit by a motor vehicle. The victim sustained minor injuries...
Three penalties were for hits after the whistle. Two were for unsportsmanlike conduct. Junior Noah Welch, an all-American defenseman last season, was hit with a roughing double-minor after landing a right hook or two in a scuffle with Jaime Sifers...
...money is among the most difficult subjects for couples to discuss openly. Forty percent of the men and women polled by reader's digest in 2001 admitted lying to their spouses. The most frequent lie--covering up the price of a purchase--was money related. While such relatively minor fibs are by far the most common, women's more substantial financial secrets range from saving money to surprise a spouse with an expensive gift to hiding assets from a husband in anticipation of a divorce...