Word: roberts
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...care solutions, not McCain's juvenile critique of Obama's European trip. Voters must demand solutions from those running for office - not fifth-grade political campaigns with playground sound bites. As a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, I find it disturbing that McCain has lost touch with reality. Major Robert Tormey (ret.), ESCONDIDO, CALIF...
...movie or read a word of English. You'll learn how films should be seen, and how the language can be twisted, refined, expanded, improved, undercut, remade. (The frustrating news is that Negative Space represents only a small fraction of the Farber canon. The exhilarating news is that Robert Polito, one of the best of many writers on Manny, is preparing a multivolume set of the complete criticism, to be published by Harvard University Press...
...allowed that, yes, he might be thought of as one of the 10 best film critics... Always competitive, and this time underestimating his worth. (A quick list of nine others, without overthinking it, but just going by the gut feeling of folks whose writing makes me jealous: Ferguson, Agee, Robert Warshow, Sarris, Kael, Richard T. Jameson, J. Hoberman - the best weekly film critic today, and the one who drank deepest at the Farber font - and, of the new guys, Ed Gonzalez, and honorary adoptive American, David Thomson...
With Zimbabwe's economy in ruins, millions of its people living as refugees abroad and its security forces beating, torturing and killing dissenters to Robert Mugabe's regime on a daily basis, Zimbabwe's opposition could be forgiven for having a few things to get off their chests. On Tuesday, they did. For the first time in living memory, 84-year-old Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 28 years, was heckled and drowned out in parliament. As Mugabe tried to deliver a keynote speech opening a new session of parliament, opposition members - who now form...
...Harvard's part, Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell was nearly as dismissive of the results as were the students...