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...Kensington, Roddy has impeccable manners and a chipper demeanor that can't quite mask his loneliness. So when he's flushed down a toilet into the London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation he's been missing-the agita and ecstasy of life...
...French creature called Le Frog, voiced by Jean Reno. Le Frog replies, "I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French.") Naturellement, the movie is awash in rodent jokes, from an amusing libel on the Pied Piper to the crucial moment when Roddy implores Rita to "Nibble for your life...
...Muslims at the prison. Both Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, use events at the prison to explain their calls for Holy War against the U.S. "Al-Qaeda and other Jihadis still cite Abu Ghraib to demonstrate what they call U.S. crimes against Muslims," notes Rita Katz, director and co-founder of the SITE Institute, who has made a study of terrorist videos and other propaganda. "Some of the videos actually feature the dogs used at Abu Ghraib...
...Square, while sitting outside of Boylston Hall and reading some books in the nice fall weather. Two hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist in Russian and she told me to take a seat by her desk. Her name was Rita, and she was going to explain some things to me. A minute later, another Russian patient walked in, a woman wearing a red and white tracksuit and a Dior hairclip. “If you have trouble afterwards, you call him and he will call you back that...
...handwriting that makes chicken scratch look like artistic calligraphy. This wouldn’t be a problem except for his insistence on writing lecture notes on the fly on his tablet PC, which he projects on the screen. For extra fun, ask Sanes to pronounce the name of "Rita Levi-Montalcini," a famous Italian neurobiologist. You won't be disappointed, believe us. Professor Jeffrey Lichtman, who has a somewhat strange fetish for powerful microscopes, is perhaps the better lecturer of the two (though his sense of humor might leave some scratching their heads.) Both are receptive to questions, even...