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...series with a 44-yard bomb down the left sideline to wide receiver Travis Hutson, burning sophomore cornerback Danny Tanner and getting the Leopards into Harvard territory. Linebacker Matt Thomas and defensive tackle Michael Berg responded by sacking Maurer for a nine-yard loss on the next play. Shaken, the Lafayette quarterback tried to recover on second-and-long by passing towards a cluster of receivers in the middle...
From the start, everyone understood that filming in Afghanistan would be a risky undertaking. Only a few months earlier, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan had shaken the world of journalism. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the filming commenced amid chaos: the day before their team landed in Afghanistan vice-president Haji Qadir was assassinated, and the crew’s first twenty-four hours in Kabul were punctuated by multiple bomb threats...
...silence on the subject seems odd, as Huckabees is a film borne of its times. Its mix of surrealism and inanity (Russell cites Magritte and Buñuel as major influences) reflects what some audiences see in their surroundings today: a world facing fear and the unknown, shaken by seemingly random events and unsure how to proceed...
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cultivated an image of unyielding toughness, seems shaken. Beslan provided devastating proof that the core of his macho approach to politics--his promise to rub out secessionists--was nothing but empty words. And so he reached for a safety blanket of his own last week, announcing a series of moves aimed at consolidating political power in the Kremlin. Under Putin's plan, the 89 regional governors will henceforth be appointed, not elected. Russia's parliament, the Duma, will be elected only from party lists, not from constituencies. As most parties represented...
Political strategists say women were shaken by the attack on a school in Beslan, Russia, in which scores of children lost their lives. "That was a parent's nightmare," says pollster David Winston, who advises House and Senate Republicans. So Kerry is trying to chip away at Bush's tough-on-terrorists image. Kerry's speech at the National Guard convention last week--in which he argued that the White House has "taken its eye off the ball" and even set back the war on terrorism by invading Iraq--may have been directed as much to women...