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...destigmatization and intellectualization of Republicanism are not just tactics—they’re strategies, with the potential for enormous payoff. While working to improve its reputation on campus, the HRC has also been setting the tone for the way they hope Democrats and Republicans will interact for the next 20 years...
...Long From The English Patient to Gosford Park, Kristin Scott Thomas has oozed aristocracy. In Philippe Claudel's French drama, she occupies a private palace of pain as an ex-con reuniting with her sister (Elsa Zylberstein). This fine rehab film has a long fuse and a potent payoff...
...grimaces. The film becomes an ensemble piece, with a dozen or so character actors carrying the storyline. Finally, Changeling - like most Eastwood movies - is exactly as good as its makings. In its purposeful accumulation of depravities, both individual and institutional, the director's non-style has an honorable payoff that's rare in modern Hollywood cinema: the story's weight could come close to burying you in despair...
...bone-cratering damage a fist can do to a face, get to feel the impact of a body splattering on a pavement, get to appreciate more than the contours of a luscious model who's removing her clothes. PG-13 is the tease; R is the payoff...
...that was never possible in the analog age ... For the first time, [copyright law] reaches beyond the professional to control the amateur." And when it comes to prosecuting copyright infringement, Lessig doesn't spare members of his profession: "The threat of litigation is huge, so the payoff to make litigants go away is also huge. The system loves the game; the game therefore never ends...