Word: ryans
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...Following the success of Saving Private Ryan, Hanks turns in yet another Oscar bid with his believable portrayal of the everyman, Paul Edgecomb. The model of fairness and discipline, Edgecomb is the ideal man to be charged with one of society's toughest responsibilities. As the caretaker of doomed criminals, his job requires him to grapple with death and justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom...
...present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film in the present, it would have been much more powerful to cut it off in the past. Still, despite this minor blemish, the film is a spectacular cinematic achievement, and although Oscar time is still far away, The Green Mile seems destined to grab the Academy...
Senior winger Ryan Campbell blasted a shot from below the right face-off circle, but Jonas closed the five-hole and covered the rebound...
...Treasurer Ryan G. Schaffer '00 also said the graduate board has not given any solid indication of their motivation...
...Cuba--to board a charter flight in Miami, New York City or Los Angeles that lands in Havana. Donohue paid Castro a visit last July, the first ever by a U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief. Other high-profile delegations--including one led by Illinois' Republican Governor George Ryan in October--descended on Havana soon after, scoping the possibilities of selling everything from long-grain rice to fiber-optic cable. "[The Cubans] need everything in the world--technology, farms, hospitals," says Ryan. "Illinois would be in a prime position to help them." In a key step toward that goal, Missouri...