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...crisis. But publicly, he stayed mum and was criticized for it. He says that interjecting himself into the case would have inflamed the anti-Duke, anti-K contingent, especially at the University of North Carolina and other competing schools. "In [the Durham] area, I am like a lightning rod for some things, because there are a lot of Carolina fans or whatever," he says, a few hours before his first address to the "K Academy," a four-day adult fantasy camp for all things Duke basketball (cost: $10,000). "I would not want whatever I said to polarize the community...
...crisis. But publicly, he stayed mum, and was criticized for it. He believed that interjecting himself into the case would inflame the anti-Duke, anti-K contingent, especially at the University of North Carolina and other Atlantic Coast Conference schools. "In [the Durham] area, I am like a lighting rod for some things, because there are a lot of Carolina fans or whatever," he says in a conference room outside his Duke office, a few hours before his first address to the "K Academy," a four-day adult fantasy camp for all things Duke basketball. Cost...
Truckers Darren Schneider and Rod Bryson couldn't have chosen a more dramatic place to stop. But having turned off the 90 Mile Straight, "Australia's Longest Straight Road," in the early hours of the morning en route from Melbourne to Perth, their three-carriage Kenworth inexplicably shuts down. A misty dawn reveals an endless vista of saltbush: They're bang in the middle of an ancient seabed stretching 700 km from South Australia's Head of the Bight west to Balladonia. Nullarbor translates as "no trees" in Latin, and for the moment the truckers are without a clue. "Usually...
...storyteller, Shyamalan might be a one-trick pony. O.K., it's a great trick: the notion of dread congealing around some ordinary man, capped by a switcheroo that casts all that preceded it in a darker light. But the surprise ending can restrict an artist. (Ask O. Henry; ask Rod Serling.) If viewers of each new Shyamalan film get a twist, it feels predictable. If they don't, they feel cheated...
...Saddam General, surgeons had continued the treatment begun in the military hospital. They inserted a steel rod to stabilize the bones in one of her shattered legs and tried to keep her wounds clean of infection. It was delicate work, done even as their emergency room and hallways began to fill with casualties...