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...budget resolution. Lott reinstalled Frumin - making him the only parliamentarian to be appointed by both parties - who then stuck to Dove's recommendations. "I've known Alan very well for a very long time," says Dove, who now teaches at George Washington University and practices law at Patton Boggs. "He's more than up for the job." Frumin, as is tradition for sitting parliamentarians, declined to be interviewed for this story...
...film's few weak moments are the ones that dovetail with typical inspirational stories. Precious' teacher at her new alternative school is Blu Rain (Paula Patton), and she's as dreamy as her name suggests. She's also kind and patient, except where bureaucracy is concerned; then she's feisty and political. The classroom is filled with societal castoffs, and the scenes there have an unwelcome touch of Welcome Back, Kotter. Precious seems to have an easier time trusting the situation than...
...session, the analysands grow more agitated: "It's not an owl," it's some dread thing come to get me. Two of these patients soon die violently, and Dr. Tyler, whose husband was murdered next to her late one night, is suspected by the wily, inane sheriff (Will Patton) of being somehow responsible for the deaths. He becomes even more suspicious when Dr. Tyler's young daughter goes missing. Murdered and stashed away? Kidnapped? Or alien abducted? Whatever the answer, the folks in this movie have some loose intellectual hinges. Suddenly Ted Stevens doesn't seem like Alaska's loopiest...
...Sklaver grew up drawn to service. He admired his grandfather, who served with George Patton's Army in World War II. He joined ROTC at Tufts, received a master's in international relations from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, was commissioned as an officer in the Army Reserve in 2003 and became convinced that a world consumed with conflict and terrorism might be changed by Americans bringing clean water, medicine and food as much as by drones, missiles and military might. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' new offensive in Afghanistan...
...darkly humorous character study. Building on his work with 2008’s critically acclaimed “The Wrestler,” Siegel puts a new spin on the culture of athletic obsession, glimpsing into the life of a pathetic fan on the cusp of middle age. Paul (Patton Oswalt) lives for the New York Giants, calling into radio shows with pre-scripted diatribes about how his team will make it to the Super Bowl this year. When he’s not working as a parking attendant, he sits outside the football stadium, watching games on a small...