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...public adulation, and obsessed with outdoing Don Revie (Colm Meaney), his predecessor as manager of Leeds United. Clough’s vendetta against Revie, a well-known historical fact, is nonetheless provided a fictional justification in the film. Soon after Clough has taken over as manager at then-lowly Second Division team Derby County, the First Division champions Leeds United come to Derby for an FA Cup game. In some of the film’s most affecting scenes, Clough and his staff spend weeks trying to get their pitiful pitch and stadium in a state fit for the visiting...
...theory ever developed, and yet, some of the greatest thinkers ever to have lived—even Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, pioneers of the theory—had difficulty accepting the phenomenal implications of interpreting the theory’s mathematical formalism. Richard Feynman, the charismatic second generation quantum physicist, famously quipped, “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” It is no easy task, then, for the writer without a considerable scientific background to intelligently and meaningfully engage with...
Lawn Chair Larry's unlikely flight spawned many imitators. In 2008, Oregon man Kent Couch successfully took his own balloon-powered lawn chair on a 235-mile (378 km) trek across the state, traveling across the Idaho state line. This was Couch's third trip - his second stopped just short of the state line, while the first ended with him parachuting from the chair after popping too many balloons...
...This was his second tour overseas," said Laura while sitting at her dining-room table. "His unit went to Uganda for a year in 2007. That's where he created his nonprofit, the ClearWater Initiative, so people there would have something we all take for granted - clean water...
...fense. Jean is just 23 and a little over a year into his law degree. Appointing him to such a high-profile position smacks of nepotism, cronyism and regal high-handedness, say Sarkozy's critics. "Who for an instant thinks that the nomination of a boy entering his second year of legal studies to the presidency of an institution that manages La Défense's billions is based entirely on his merit and not at all on his last name?" asked Joffrin's Tuesday editorial in the daily Libération. "Our monarchy was elective; is it now hereditary...