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Seemingly the perfect fit for the Crimson, Baise got down to business with his players from the very first practice, emphasizing that hard work would be the key to success...
...gruffness and deadpan comic timing to bring Carl to vocal life. As Docter recalls, "When we first met Ed and showed him a small sculpture we'd made of Carl, he said [growling], 'I don't look anything like that.' And we thought, O.K., this is gonna be perfect." Docter and Peterson then tailored the dialogue to the actor's speech patterns. "We looked for words that had more consonants and shortened the sentences," Docter says. That cemented the notion that Carl, post-Ellie, is a disgruntled bear that's been poked awake during hibernation...
...town, the splendid Akaroa Harbour lies by the volcanic Banks Peninsula, a 90-minute drive away. Forgo perfect hair and don a wetsuit from Black Cat Cruises, www.blackcat.co.nz, to cavort with one of the world's smallest and rarest dolphins - the endangered, friendly Hector's. An hour north of Christchurch, the fruitful Waipara Valley is home to the Claremont Country Estate, www.claremont-estate.com. This 2,400-acre (10 sq km) property, circa 1866, is a working sheep and cattle station that offers lodge accommodation if you feel like spending the night. But if you can't tear yourself away from downtown...
...President Obama aptly characterized the current recession recently as one caused by a "perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Yet the Obama phenomenon could be brewing a more perfect storm, wherein an F.D.R.-L.B.J. - style government would promote intrusions that could inflict great social, political and economic devastation on us. Daniel B. Jeffs, Apple Valley, Calif...
...Between the NYPD's counterterrorism bureau, the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force and a U.S. Attorney's office vastly experienced in national-security issues, "you have a perfect storm of anti-terror efforts in New York, and [the plotters] ran straight into it," Burton says. The city, along with Los Angeles, "has resources comparable to many countries," says James Carafano, a terrorism analyst at the Heritage Foundation. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...