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...between references to James Brown and Babe, Shrek manages to eke out a slight plot. You see, Shrek is a gentle giant, contentedly living alone in the middle of the woods, going about his business, scaring away the occasional angry mob intent on slaying him-you know, the usual things ogres do. However, Shrek's happy, if lonely, life is disrupted when little Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) enlists the beast to track down Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), whom the monarch seeks to make his bride. Joining Shrek in this journey, due to the law mandated by Animation Codes and Regulations...
...Chant” that comes from the South American rainforest, I got goosebumps. When she then made the entire hall sing it in parts, my hair stood on end. It is the magic of Sweet Honey that can turn an audience that would otherwise sound like a football mob into a 1,000-strong choir. When they sang “Motherless Chile,” I had to dry my eyes...
...gonna get another e-mail from him over this), a blockmate went to Amazon.com and found that not only does he have a sketchy resume (sample titles include: Dixie’s Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Last Suppers: If the World Ended Tomorrow, What Would Be Your Last Meal? and Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage), but the reviews of his past work were less than glowing (i.e. “Throughout the book, Dickerson’s judgment is questionable...
Timothy McVeigh’s execution approaches on May 16th under the presidency of George W. Bush who, as governor of Texas, oversaw the execution of 152 people, more than any other state governor in history. It is unlikely that members of the mob clamoring to watch McVeigh die will take the time to read The Stranger, but they should. And so the students in the steady flow from Harvard to the investment banks should pause and read Upside Down. What is the value of their work, what is it they accomplish if, “in 1997, of every...
...stones down on their occupiers from the mount's porches and set off a citywide riot; eventually 2,000 rebels were crucified. In A.D. 26, the Roman governor provocatively ordered his troops to raise flags with Caesar's face within a few hundred feet of the central shrine. A mob marched to his house in Caesarea. His soldiers drew their swords. The Jews, in an extraordinary act of passive resistance, laid bare their necks and said they would rather die than see their religious laws flouted. The governor, a normally hot-tempered newcomer named Pontius Pilate, recalled the flags...