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Seattle coach Bill Resler calls his Roosevelt High girls' basketball team a "pride of lions." Which sounds simple and uplifting until he explains that in the jungle, female lions leave the males and go prowling to "kill and devour" their foe. His offensive strategy: he has none, instead establishing a pressing defense that exhausts the opponent...
Ward Serrill's feel-good doc, which covers seven years in the life of Resler's Roughriders, is hobbled by a narration so syrupy, it could be poured on pancakes. But the movie soars because of the sport's natural drama (every game seems to come down to a last, desperate shot) and its luck in finding a complex heroine. Darnellia Russell, the rare black girl on a white team, has dimples, drive and enough problems to fill an afterschool special. The film can't help touching on issues of race, child abuse and teen pregnancy, even...
...been creeping up in the past few weeks. The cost of a 30-year mortgage, for example, has jumped from 8.36% at the beginning of the year to 8.82% now. Economists are absolutely baffled by the recent rise in short- and long-term rates. "Whatever the reason," says David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities, "if the run-up in rates reflects an emerging trend, the economic recovery hoped for later this year will never develop...
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