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...blunt. "Number one, you're here talking to me," he says. "Also, when she went to Sierra Leone with us, straightaway we got into the President's office, which would have been very hard without her." Ignore Kofi Annan all you want, but blow off Lara Croft at your peril...
Nobody has dreamed of building a better airship since the Hindenburg exploded in 1937, but aeronautics engineer Graham Dorrington has just that obsession. That makes him an ideal subject for one of director Werner Herzog's luminous studies of the peril that attends man's quest to tame nature--the peril but also the ecstasy. When Dorrington finally gets the airship to fly, it's one of the most spiritually buoyant scenes in recent cinema...
...least be keen. In the final, "Australia looked old, tired and bored," wrote former New South Wales coach Phil Gould, who used to inspire his players with war stories or late-night walks in empty stadiums - anything that would get them bursting to play. Coaches forget at their peril that, along with skills, tactics are merely the ribbons and jewelry of football. Toughness and enthusiasm are its flesh and bone...
...which it is perpetually winter because of the curse of the evil queen, the White Witch (Tilda Swinton). The children, under the guidance of a messianic lion, Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson), must fulfill an ancient prophecy: Defeat the Witch and free Narnia. Disney tries so hard to add peril to an otherwise tame children’s story—Lewis’s strengths were in his gentle bedtime story-like tone, wondrous creatures and espousal of Christian doctrine, not his action narrative. From the expository scenes of World War II London air raids...
...since "the government" in this case is run by the Republican Party, the immigration issue also holds some peril for Bush. If his big effort on immigration ends in a stalemate--which is quite possible, since House Republicans lean more conservative on this issue and Senate Republicans, more liberal--Bush would yet again look weak. So far, he has not been able to bridge his party's business leaders, who need a steady supply of workers willing to do hard labor, and its cultural conservatives, who fear that something essential about the American character is vanishing under the crosscurrents...