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...replies in a small voice, “So I’m just supposed to run away from every guy that doesn’t like me?...Then there’ll be nobody left.” But despite her initial helplessness, Gigi avoids degenerating into sheer cynicism, and instead asserts her right to hope for love. Further, the film does not shy away from the more painful and awkward sides of relationships. In fact, watching people play out these relationships on screen, rather than reading about them in a book, makes the tension both more palpable...
...despite Gaddafi’s personal failings as a controversial political leader and the sheer impracticality of his vision, he is right to advocate better integration and accountability on the African continent...
...should be seen as little surprise that Alex Rodriguez has joined the list of great players who have taken steroids. While his figure has not attained the Herculean proportions of Jose Canseco or Barry Bonds, the sheer prevalence of steroid use in Major League Baseball that A-Rod and others have described makes A-Rod’s drug use more predictable than shocking. His tale is simply one more on a sordid list from an era inexorably tainted by the stain of performance-enhancing drugs...
...definitively caused by climate change - and it's possible that the current inferno in Australia might have been as intense and deadly even without the warming of the past several decades. Police are beginning to suspect that many of the fires may have been deliberately set, and the sheer increase in the number of homes built in fire-danger zones in southern Australia today puts more people in harm's way, raising the potential death toll. Still, heat waves and drought set the table for wildfires, and temperatures in the worst-hit areas have been over...
...over various layers of keyboard sound, before blossoming all at once into a percussive, anthemic epiphany. Portner’s vocal harmonies with Lennox have never sounded better, while the former’s impressive range has always been the signature of the band, the latter’s sheer beauty brings frequent comparisons to the Beach Boys in their heyday. And while both voices have always been put to more instrumental use than is typical in pop music, here they have the trappings of true polish.“My Girls,” the album?...