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...very "guy" year, there's more action in the Supporting Actress category than the lead one. Weisz is smart, sexy, spiky in a movie where she'd dead in the first five minutes. Keener lends humanity to Capote, and is the earth mother (or big sister) of all indies. McDormand's role was obvious and shrill, but she tempered it with her usual intelligence. Williams plays arguably the one unequivocally sympathetic character in Brokeback, and does so with quiet yearning beauty. And Adams redefines "adorable" as the star-struck yokel in Junebug. I like all these actresses, and most...
...call to arms. No longer will I allow my idealistic image of Harvard to quash the truth that is burning inside me: most of you––you meaning those who are not me––are not very smart. In fact, you are embarrassingly unintelligent, and you sully the name of this would-be-great institution...
...Hamas, is that they will discover that if they do not start the process of negotiation - which means recognizing Israel in some form - the Israelis are going to make all the decisions and they will find they've painted themselves into a corner. Hamas leaders have been very smart politically so far; that's why they are where they are. The obligations of governing may force Hamas finally to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth...
...many Americans' view of Asian comix. Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man and Other Stories (Drawn & Quarterly; 202 pages; $20) and Seyong O's Buja's Diary (NBM; 280 pages; $20) belong in the library of anyone with an interest in the culture and arts of Asia, or just smart, fresh graphical renderings of the drama of ordinary life...
...meditates at a Benedictine monastery near her Vermont home. "I go there and kind of just forget about everything- my life, my stresses, my world," says Teter. She has also struck up friendships with the monks. ?They are sooooo cool,? she says. ?They are sooooo fun, and just super smart and jolly, you know?" Her Benedictine buddies won?t travel to Torino, but after the Games, Teter vows to fill them in. Since Teter and her teammates are sure to pile medals, the monks, and the surging hordes of snowboard fans, will all be jolly. And stoked...