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Five years ago, Jose Padilla was the Dirty Bomber, a "known terrorist" at the core of "an unfolding terrorist plot" to wreak havoc on the United States with a "radioactive dirty bomb," as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft proclaimed...
...order to advance the plot of the performance in Act I, the dancers have to take on the job of being actors, with disappointing results. Toward the end of the act, during Giselle’s death scene, the theatrics of the performance stifle the quality of the dance, forsaking its technical difficulty for simpler modes of plot explication...
...sometimes to excess, the intricate braiding of characters and story lines. Everything in this movie seems to have been made on a soundstage and, for reasons best known to the director, his Paris is caught in a perpetual blizzard; it goes on for the several days consumed by the plot, yet it never seems to accumulate or alarm any of the film's characters. It must be symbolic, but of what, precisely, Resnais never hints...
...matter. Accusations of cheating and spying have run rampant. So, too, have actual cheating and spying. One player wrote to us fingering another House with signing up pre-frosh to bolster their ranks. “Councils of War”, which have sprung up in each House to plot strategy, jockey constantly to keep tabs on their opponents’ plans, with the help of dummy accounts, stolen passwords, and secretive informants. Open email lists and the Web site’s built-in private chat rooms have been dismissed as unsafe and prone to other House?...
...better educated, and--with all the inevitable caveats about disaffected young Muslim men--it is the European nation most comfortable with the multicultural future that is the fate of all of them. It would be foolish to give all the credit for the state of this blessed plot to Blair but equally foolish to deny...