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...scheme fail on its fifth time out? The first sign that something was up was the improbable amount of blood that an otherwise chipper-looking Williams spat out after his "injury" - the fake blood capsule released a volume of crimson so spectacular, it could choke a member of Kiss. Also, TV commentators covering the match live noted suspiciously that the injury had befallen Williams at the very moment the Harlequins needed a crack kicker to take the penalty. (The replacement kicker missed, handing Leinster a 5-6 win). And it didn't help that the video consulted after the match...
...Inglourious Basterds - the anomalies in spelling are to distinguish Tarantino's film from a not-so-hot 1978 Italian movie variation on The Dirty Dozen - convenes Resistance fighters from Germany and France and soldiers from Britain and the U.S. in a scheme to destroy the Third Reich. (Apparently the Russians were too busy actually winning the ground war to take part.) The Basterds are a unit of Jews - American and German - under the command of Brad Pitt's Lieutenant Aldo Raine, a tough, jovial hillbilly who sees his mission as the killing and scalping of Nazis. Any German soldiers...
...books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste, fraud and abuse. And the most prominent town-hall angle of attack against Obamacare has been its alleged scheme to let government bureaucrats pull the plug on Grandma, refuse to treat handicapped children and otherwise ration care, so again, it's easy to see why the Administration has soft-pedaled its earlier pleas for fiscal sanity. Instead, Obama is bashing the insurance industry for its own overzealous efforts...
...Ephron's screenplay hints at some distaste for her second lead. She shows Julie's undertaking as a scheme to keep up with a friend who has a successful blog rather than as a pure homage to Child. "I could write a blog," Julie tells her cute husband Eric (Chris Messina), who agrees, because he is as supportive and helpful as a Seeing Eye dog. She is pleased by her growing mastery of French cooking, but what she's really exultant about is the growing number of comments on her blog. She has followers, the contemporary dream. After...
...jail doors had barely slammed behind Bernie Madoff before publishers were racing to be first in the scandal's inevitable book sweepstakes. The victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, in which more than 4,000 clients lost $65 billion, may have been wiped out, but there is still a chance to make a killing on a best seller. After intense jockeying for position, three Madoff tomes will hit the streets on Aug. 11, about 150 years before Bernie does...