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...accuser and passed into the hands of District Attorney Mike Nifong, another series of unprofessional misjudgments began. Nifong allegedly demonstrated personal disdain for the attorneys representing the accused, appeared to have violated the policies of Durham Police Department in conducting a lineup, and ultimately pursued a case rife with holes and hearsay, an abject abuse of the district attorney’s fundamental task of pursuing justice and justice alone. The American legal system, convoluted though it may be, is bound at its axis to the idea of finding and reaching justice while taking into account the lives and livelihoods...
...form of small talk. And Bayard’s idea that shared reading provides community is right on.Harvard is filled with societies devoted to various forms of the high arts. Anyone who’s been to the events of such organizations knows that they can be rife with pretension and snarky comments, people showing off what they know and pretending to know more than they do.Books can provide entrance into cultured circles the same way obscure bands can help you be a hipster or knowledge of Britney’s disdain for underwear can establish your pop culture credentials...
Black Book is different from the many other movies about the resistance during World War II. It is sexy where they tend to be romantically chaste and wistful. It is realistic - that is to say it shows the underground to be rife with morally ambiguous behavior instead of universally populated by idealist-martyrs. And in action terms it moves like a runaway train - murders, gun fights, chases, torture sessions, follow one another in dizzying succession - in contrast to most such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow...
...Relying on the oral history of one family, without corroboration from other sources. is what offends historians like Giles Wright, an Underground Railroad expert who works for the New Jersey Historical Commission. "The Underground Railroad is so rife with distortions and misinformation, and this is just one more instance when someone comes across folklore and assumes it's true," he says...
...Best Actress statuette, assuming Academy voters ignore her earlier on-the-record remark calling the Oscars “the crème-de-la-crème of bullshit.” Her Majesty is quite right, in my opinion, as this year’s Oscars are rife with the usual mistakes and oversights. “Little Children” should have been nominated for Best Picture over the overwrought “Babel,” and “Letters” star Ken Watanabe’s Best Actor snub is a terrible omission...