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...Grimm, it was Gilliam who nearly cracked up, but the strain doesn't show onscreen. The film is a colorful ragbag of fairy-tale tropes, with crones peddling apples, a girl in a red riding hood running into a wolf and a vain queen at her magic mirror. Gilliam, who loathes the "juvenile fantasy" of movie heroism, makes the brothers pleasant but oafish; Headey, in a gorgeous, starmaking turn, is the real hero as the fearless witch Angelika. The movie's sense of humor is high-low in the Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French...
Louise Curragh slyly sees herself as the Queen of Munda. Leader of the local police, the 32-year-old New Zealand constable can exercise great authority. As the only person who carries a pistol in this part of the New Georgia Islands, once known for its marauding head-hunters, in theory Curragh has power in the way Mao envisaged it. She is usually flanked by two handsome Tongan colleagues and is greeted as Luisa or Madam wherever she goes. But the reason for Curragh's secret contentment is this: 6,000 km from her home in the Bay of Plenty...
...Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the honor on Berwick, a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, for his efforts to help reform Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) since the mid-1990s...
...WITH THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS REPORT SHOWING A RISE IN TEST SCORES FOR THIRD-GRADERS. YOUR REACTION? It's very encouraging. I think it's showing up that No Child Left Behind is working, that we're on the right track. We've turned the Queen Mary...
...Summer School’s offerings—which range from introductory humanities courses on Bob Dylan to Forbess’ 26-hours-per-week chemistry class—attract students, according to Summer School Dean of Students Christopher Queen, for reasons “quite personal and varied...