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...Dead” is not without flaws. Despite the vérité style of filmmaking, it is difficult to believe in these characters as flesh-and-blood humans because their roles are stereotypical—or, if you prefer, archetypical. You have the buxom blonde, the serious heroine, and the hard-drinking, philosophy-spouting professor. (And yes, he has an accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf...
...sits atop the Ivy League standings, the Harvard women’s basketball team appears to be firing on all cylinders. The Crimson (12-8, 5-1 Ivy), the current leaders of the Ivy league and the defending champs, will have to endure a serious threat this weekend as the team begins a crucial stretch of four consecutive league games away from the comforts of Lavietes Pavilion...
...Howard Dean has alluded to a possible “arrangement” to avoid the superdelegate scramble. However, with Obama currently claiming the Big Mo, serious discussion of such an arrangement is unlikely unless and until the results on March 4 make it apparent that we still have a stalemate. At the same time, notwithstanding the dearth of daylight between the candidates on policy or any history of personal animosity prior to the commencement of the campaign, the sheer ferocity of the conflict by that point, in the words of Donna Brazile, may make a “dream...
...media have an ethical responsibility to cover each and every presidential candidate? -Linda Tidrick, Huntington, Conn.Initially. But the voters make some decisions relatively quickly as to who are the more serious candidates. When it gets down to a point, I think it's very fair for a news organization to make an editorial judgment that some candidates have a more serious claim on a nomination than others...
...since the city ended a casino monopoly in 2002, but the gambling boom has not exactly reinvigorated interest in dog racing. Last year, the Canidrome earned just $12 million; the Venetian Macau, by comparison, raked in $418 million in its first quarter since opening last August. Unlike the more serious gamblers who hit the city's baccarat tables, the few hundred spectators at the Canidrome on most nights are mostly tourists from mainland China. "We're not that interested in gambling," says Ms. Fang, who came to Macau with a mainland tour group. "We're just here for fun." After...