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...That's not bad for a picture made on a frugal $65 million budget and shot on a bare Montreal soundstage, with the backgrounds digitally green-screened in later, in the manner of Robert Rodriguez's version of the Miller Sin City. It's also not bad for a movie that's not good. For all its battle-scene gore, 300 is at heart a talky civics lesson. It's dead-serious, stentorian and, when it's not hacking muscular fighters to bits, pretty stodgy...
...last battle, Leonidas gets an enemy arrow in each tit, and soon he's Xerxes' pin cushion. The image may remind you of Saint Sebastian in a medieval painting, or Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. To me it recalled some of the more extreme photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe...
...interactive online resource for student athletes and staff. According to Osburn, wagering is defined as “putting something at risk with the opportunity to win something in return” whether it’s cash or a prize.” Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday...
...more important is what the hara-kiri hat trick shows about Robert Gates, the new secretary of defense, and the new kind of leadership he has brought to the Pentagon. "I don't have very much patience for people that don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility," Gates said shortly before he ordered Harvey to submit his resignation papers...
...Robert Scales, a retired Army major general, says Gates will have to move much more gingerly before taking similar action against any officers carrying out the Iraq war strategy. "He's new to the job, and to the art of war," says Scales, a historian and former head of the Army War College. "Given the nature and character of this war, I think he's being a bit more measured overseas." He adds: "Military medicine and soldier care are things that are pretty easy to understand. But when you get into the complexities of a counterinsurgency, even those...