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...history. Early favorite “New Slang” featured a series of shots of the band standing around lakes and amusement parks. But then The Shins moved on to a number of serious, high-concept tropes, including Communist penguins (“So Says I”), sad origami cows (“Pink Bullets”), and most recently, a grade-school play in which children perform gory historical scenes (“Phantom Limb”). The Shins must have figured they couldn’t make things any more bizarre, because with the video...
...Iraq, cautions against "knee-jerk anti-Americanism," remarking: "It doesn't do Iraqis any favors. The focus should be on making Iraq a place Iraqis want to live." Today, Pauline and Margaret have both left Mosul. Their stories - of hastily packed suitcases thrown in cars at dawn - are a sad reminder of just how unlivable their former home has become...
...they weren't going to get. "There's this perception that the geeks have inherited the earth," says Smith, "but if they had, Grindhouse would have grossed $100 million. It plays to a marginalized culture." A marginalized culture with a big stick. When Disney tried to market the sweetly sad Bridge to Terabithia as the next Narnia, the Web was awash with fanboy invective, not for the film but for the trailer's misleading emphasis on fantasy. In the end Terabithia did respectably with family audiences, earning more than $100 million worldwide, but it didn't pull in the nearly...
...risk. Giovanni wrote a letter to department head Roy, in part because she wanted to create a record that could lead to removing Cho from her class. Giovanni said she was prepared to quit over the issue. Roy, for her part, saw the anger as well. "He seemed so sad inside," she said, and she shared her concerns with campus police and counselors. They told her that unless the threats were explicit, there was little they could do. So Roy took him on as a private student, just to keep him away from others. When he was referred to counseling...
...secretary claims he’s out of the office. The calendar tells me that hockey season is over. But deep down, I know the sad truth...