Word: misguidedness
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That's pretty much the way it goes with this movie. It's a faux epic - swell costumes, historically authentic settings, a certain amount of bustle and skulking, but very little dramatically gripping activity. One has hopes, occasionally, for Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham, Elizabeth's supremely adept spymaster (and a...
So it goes throughout Elizabeth. Wit might have animated it. Or authentic passion. Or a certain imperiousness in Blanchett's playing, a certain dangerousness in Owen's. But the movie wants to see them as more modern figures - earnest, good-natured, embryonic democrats. Elizabeth, as a number of movies have...
But many experts disagree, calling into question the focus of biological research in the U.S. - on anthrax and plague instead of, say, drug-resistant tuberculosis or the hepatitis viruses - which may be doing the country a disservice. In a 2005 open letter, organized by Richard H. Ebright, a Rutgers University...
That sentiment echoes the wishes of many in the Buddhist clergy, who through the newly formed All-Burma Monks Alliance, have called for Suu Kyi's release and, even more dramatically, the junta's expulsion "from Burmese soil forever." "We must not retreat," vows a 23-year-old monk in...
But even dedicated fiscal conservatives think Bush's threatened veto of the bipartisan plan to increase SCHIP is misguided. "I don't think I would do it if I were President," Weyrich said. "It's not worthwhile in terms of political gain."