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...movie's major difference from the book is in its portrait of Leonidas' queen, Gorgo (who in Greek legend was also the daughter of the king's half-brother). Miller, mesmerized by battle and honor, had little interest in the queen; she appears in just a few panels. The movie, true to the actual Spartan tradition of emancipated womanhood, promotes Gorgo (played with a kind of stalwart sensuality by Headey) to a co-starring role, allowing her to take fatal revenge on a wicked politician who had sodomized her. In the book, Leonidas thought Sparta was always an ideal worth...
While Tulane dismisses Marrogi's suspicions as far-fetched, documents examined by TIME as well as interviews with witnesses who have testified to the IRS illustrate financial machinations that appear to have Gerber at their center and, at the very least, paint a portrait of a prestigious university shoddily run. Indeed, the school's officials and its legal counsel openly contradict one another. The vice chancellor for finance, Ray Newman, contends that doctors are due compensation for work at Charity Hospital (which produces revenues for the university of $20 million to $30 million in payments), even as general counsel John...
Skaggs had finished his day's work, a double portrait of the magician Signor Antonio Blitz and his favorite wooden dummy. He decided to use the rest of the afternoon to start writing an essay, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's lecture last month, on the ways that railway travel and photography and the telegraph were warping the perception of time...
...hardly believable, results from an ongoing skirmish between islander fishermen and mainland fishermen. After serving his five-year sentence, Cole returns to the island, determined to painstakingly rebuild the life he once had. Shot on location, the film offers a glimpse into the world of lobster fishing, and its portrait of the Maine island lifestyle distinguishes the film from typical down-on-your luck productions. The portrayal of the maritime community—both insular and incestuous, at once supportive and condemning—is both authentic and well-developed. Many of the shots of the island and its coast...
...sympathetic to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but the facts were just too convincing. For the first 10 days of their deliberations, the jurors did nothing but sort the convoluted details of the case onto 34 sheets of butcher paper they posted around the jury room. What emerged was a portrait of the Vice President's chief of staff as a man who worked long hours and had a notoriously bad memory, but not bad enough to explain away lying to the grand jury about how he heard about the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame...