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...they don't seem particularly bothered by them. "We believe the war against terrorism is a war against Islam," says the hard-line ICU national security chairman, Sheik Yusuf Indahaadde. "Those who are making trouble are not based here." Then, in English, the sheik adds forcefully, "Bush is the mother and father of terrorism...
Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) is a minor movie player, now edging even closer to the margin as she toils in the not entirely promising indie production of Home for Purim, a 1940s period piece, set in the South in which she plays a terminally ill mother awaiting the return of her long-estranged daughter for that most obscure of Jewish holidays. One day, though, one of the crew informs her that she's been mentioned for an Oscar nomination on one of the show biz blogs...
...line in the film “Miracle” where U.S. assistant coach Craig Patrick, astounded that Herb Brooks would want Jim Craig as his starting goalie, tells Brooks, “Word is Craig’s game’s been off since his mother died.” Without missing a beat, Brooks snaps, “Have you ever seen him when his game?...
...It’s not his first time getting adjusted to new surroundings. Calling Kacyvenski’s upbringing difficult is more than an understatement—his mother died before he finished high school and his father was an abusive, though now reformed, alcoholic—and he didn’t exactly grow up expecting to become his college football program’s all-time leading tackler, let alone a Harvard graduate...
...starters, what does it say to illegal immigrants if a woman named “Velazquez” is the future head of the House Small Business Committee? The ascent of minorities will lead to a crisis of leadership, and Grandma Pelosi (D-Calif.)—mother of five, grandmother of five—will be too busy turning the House into “the Home” to stop...