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That's just one of the reasons the movie is ultimately stronger than the book. Push had the inevitable self-consciousness of something written in dialect; it spoon-fed us Precious' illiteracy along with her shattered innocence. If you didn't understand something in the text, you could move on, sure you were at least getting the gist of it. Sidibe is too commanding a presence to allow such laziness on the viewer's part. The reader also had the option of softening elements of Precious' story (even though Sapphire shared a few sensationalistic details with us that the movie...
Harvard didn’t have great field position—a return from sophomore Matthew Hanson had put the team on its own 34—but the expected play would have been a long bomb to at least make a push for the endzone...
...We’re going to push each other in practice to race in the Invitational next weekend,” Hughes said. “I’m looking forward to having my first meet with the whole team. It’s nice to have upperclassmen there...
Continuing to push forward in tough battles, Harvard hopes to have the same success next year, now that both the sophomores and freshmen have never been without an Ivy League championship during their college career...
...ambitions associated with the six-party talks and negotiations with North Korea." Of course, China's cooperation has limits. It remains the North's closest ally. While the U.S., especially under the Bush Administration, was willing to confront and isolate Kim Jong II, Beijing doesn't want to push the North to the point of collapse. It fears the repercussions of a failed North Korea as much as, or perhaps more than, it does a nuclear-armed dictator. (See rare pictures from inside North Korea...