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This time of year, the interests of Hollywood folks travel on parallel tracks: totting up the blockbusters and anticipating the Oscars. Start with the money. The year's top-grossing films in North American release were two sequels (the sixth Star Wars, the fourth Harry Potter) and a remake (War of the Worlds). Another remake (King Kong) may join their ranks. Stay tuned for more of the depressing same...
...Bauer says that "no information would indicate" Alpizar had any terrorist connections. But authorities plan to explore that possibility as the post-shooting investigation goes forward. "There will be two parallel investigations," he says. "First, the shooting will be investigated by Miami-Dade homicide investigators. Second, the FBI and federal air marshals are investigating whether this has any national security concern. Right now there's nothing to indicate any national security concern...
...book, “Storming the Court,” attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern...
...point comebacks—against Dartmouth in his first start in 2001 and against Brown his senior year—during Sunday’s game. “I really was thinking about that,” Fitzpatrick said. “It was a neat little parallel. I’ve been in that situation—you either make a big play or do something to ignite the rest of the team.” He said that the quickness of Martin’s injury meant that he didn’t have time...
...integrating into the European society that they have chosen to call home. My suggestion is to take the British stance: it is time to begin deporting immigrants who propagate terrorism or incite violence. Russell W. MacDonald Huelva, Spain Your story on the disaffection of young European Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall...