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...plans for Europe aim at elevating the league to a similar level. But part of the mission Sunday was merely briefing prospective fans on the game's nuances. A recurring segment during television timeouts explained the finer points of the game - how to crouch in a three-point stance, for instance. Exuberance may have trumped insight among the crowd, but that shouldn't dim the league's optimism. Rather, it underlines the potential for growth...
Members of the Marine civil affairs unit working in Sinaa say they, too, are stuck in the same frustrating warp as the business owners. The success of their mission also depends on improving security and development in their zone. They've seen how fragile their hold is on the region and know what idleness breeds. A car bomb thought to be made there killed 40 people in Fallujah during a funeral procession in May, and a cell of bomb makers was cut down by Iraqi police in Sinaa as recently as August. They say they are in a race against...
...possible that Philip Seymour Hoffman may finally have found perfect bliss. He has, of course, been terrific in films ranging from Capote to Mission Impossible 3, but the chance to play perfect evil - a delirious combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...Although many of the tenure cases involve Israel, committee members said that the group’s mission went beyond political issues...
...encouraged such uniformity more or less explicitly. Since any coherent program of undergraduate education entails choosing a particular set of values, skills, and understandings that college graduates ought to share, it will necessarily exclude any student who, due to race, sexual orientation, or personal taste, disagrees with that mission. It’s this exclusivity that has torn at the cloth of our community, giving the Harvard man enough wiggle room to propagate his hateful, antique notions of “responsibility” and “citizenship...