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Firth plays an English novelist, teaching literature at a Los Angeles college in 1962 and grieving - delicately, obsessively, heroically - for his lover of 16 years, dead in a car crash. Seeing no reason for his life to go on, George meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but has trouble finding a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. So over the course of a long day, he listens idly to his colleagues' worries over the Cuban missile crisis; has dinner with his oldest friend, a London socialite (Julianne Moore, never more glamorous); and indulges some erotic flattery...
...take great pride in the fact that [Kennedy] was a Harvard football player, from the standpoint that obviously he was one of the great legislators of all time,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy says. “The reason we champion Ted Kennedy so much, is that what he accomplished is legendary in the Senate, and who he accomplished it for, I think is just as important...
...appeared that—for the first time in a while—the Crimson faithful had reason to worry. Harvard lost both Williams and defensive coordinator Kevin Doherty, and while Berry represented a known quantity at corner, the rest of the secondary—comprised of then-senior Ryan Barnes, then-junior Barker, then-sophomore Collin Zych, and rookie Matthew Hanson—presented a number of less-heralded new faces. With the exception of Berry, the Crimson’s defensive backs could claim only a handful of college starts...
...Harvard has reason to be confident—the four returnees accounted for nine of the Crimson’s 15 interceptions last year and totaled as many pass breakups (29) as the average Harvard opponent’s entire squad...
...musings, which often reflect his pacifist views. He says that his aversion to violence began to develop after a stint as a reserve soldier in 1983, when he refused to fight in the war between Israel and Lebanon. “I thought the war was initiated for no reason,” he says, “but now my views are more so. At the time, I was against this specific war, but now I don’t think I would [serve] in any war.” However, Mograbi is careful to emphasize that his passionate...