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...than uh-oh, or oh-no. Emitting a stale odor from the first reel, Fred never engaged the audience of kids and adults that I saw it with. There were neither big laughs nor the kind of warmth you can feel when moviegoers are connecting with the stuff on-screen. And if early indications hold, the opening weekend will be a box office disappointment...
...first quarter: Brendan McNally is in at QB for Penn. After a screen pass to Sandberg, he throws the ball away, forcing another punt. Where's Walker? It's hard to find him on the sideline...
...film desperately needs. From the beginning, the movie builds towards a climax that, if successful, might have redeemed at least part of the mess preceding it. The much-awaited culmination never comes. All we’re left with is Malley’s student staring blankly at the screen, realizing (finally!) that he needs to take action and help change society. Or maybe that look on his face is a sudden feeling of regret that he acted in the film. As the film’s tagline reminds viewers, “If you don’t stand...
...Nelson's consultants, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who oversees the state's elections, was himself an advocate of touch-screen voting as the elections supervisor of the county that includes Tampa. But since then, while he still believes the "DRE system itself" is sound, he acknowledges the system's margin for "the human error factor" has proven great enough to cause the new inertia. "There's not a lot you can do to mess up with optical scanning," says Browning. "We believe we're doing the right thing in Florida...
...while Florida (which passed Crist's touch-screen ban this past spring) has given itself an almost two-year run-up to its 2008 changes, Browning worries many states may not be able to meet the paper-trail requirements by next November, particularly since the Nelson-Whitehouse bill may not even pass until well into next year. Browning, as a result, feels the 2010 elections may be a more feasible target - and would give states more time to simply get rid of DRE and bring in optical scanning rather than spending more money in 2008 to add paper-trail capacity...