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...weaknesses. At 494 pages of actual text, the book is comprehensive but long, and because of its overwhelming scope it is necessarily somewhat jumpy and scattered; with so many characters to keep track of, it is sometimes hard to follow the big picture. Halberstam also tends to repeat what he has said, particularly in the life histories of his characters. When Halberstam tells the same story for the third time, it almost seems as if he doesn’t trust the reader to remember what he said before...
Forgive Murphy and Estes for worrying about holding on to the ball. Last season, the Crimson turned the ball over 36 times, and Brown quarterbacks also threw for 14 interceptions. In the final tally Saturday, Harvard turned the ball over zero, repeat zero times. No fumbles, no picks, nothing. Browns Kyle Rowley threw two interceptions in the second half to kill the Bears comeback chances...
However, while it might be good to repeat these basic truths, in many respects the rally was preaching to the choir. Aside from a few emotional outbursts soon after the bombing, all of our leaders condemn acts that smack of “indiscriminate violence,” and unlike the terrorists, none of them support the needless killing of innocents. Who would be opposed to “a reasoned, just and forward-looking response” to our national tragedy? The important question is what responses are reasonable, what actions are just—and on this question...
...15ish AM: Shooting the first scene. “Scene 3, Take 1! Ready! Background! Action!” The commands are repeated over and over as Scott tries to get the scene exactly how he wants it. The three young actresses, aged five, seven and seven, repeat their lines; the girls bob up and down in the water, singing and playing between takes. My job is to sit by the pool and read a book. Things are looking up: I get to wear a white T-shirt so I don’t freeze to death and I have...
...sounds a little apocryphal, that's part of the story too since Dylan--born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn.--has revised and reinvented his past from the very start of his career. On Summer Days, a track from Love and Theft, he sings, "She says, 'You can't repeat the past.' I say, 'You can't? What do you mean, you can't? Of course you can!'" Dylan talks like he sings, in that ancient lilting rasp, stressing unexpected syllables, mesmerizing with folky cadences, loping along somewhere between conversation and caterwauling. All the compositions on Love and Theft...