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...tried to deflect criticism of the Iraq war this week by announcing a series of timelines and performance benchmarks for Iraq's government to disband sectarian militias and other goals aimed at preventing a civil war - all the while making it clear that U.S. patience has limits. But no sooner had the U.S. made this declaration than Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki virtually dismissed it. Not only did he reject the notion of timelines, but he scolded the U.S. for attacking commanders of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army in Baghdad. TIME.com asked Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan...
...injury yet again, sidelined with a knee ligament strain he incurred on a scramble play. That pushed control of the pigskin farther down the depth chart, as sophomore Jeff Witt iced the win over the Crusaders and directed a crucial road win at Brown the following week.Pizzotti gamely returned sooner than expected—initial estimates had him out for roughly four weeks—to reclaim control of the offense for a road tilt at Lehigh, and kept Harvard undefeated, bringing the squad to Princeton last weekend with an unblemished 5-0 record. That’s when things...
...then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund lawsuits, said in court that the settlement was a fair resolution. "It will provide the victims a large amount of money much sooner," Sarko said...
...That's very tough for a place that has welcomed so many students of varying abilities over the years," says the trustee, who notes that historically black colleges had to endure a similar reconceptualization in the 1970s, after the Ivy League began poaching their most talented black students. Sooner or later, Gallaudet too will have to be just a college, not a cocoon...
...perfectly honest, The Prestige is wildly overplotted and it contains a final gimmick that you're going to kick yourself for not recognizing sooner. In this context, you're going to especially appreciate Michael Caine's work as Cutter, the man who engineers the lads' best illusions and who is, finally, the most sensible and sympathetic figure present, grounding the film in some sort of rationality. Yet for all the film's murky misdirections, it is very enjoyable. That's because Nolan's recreation of the illusionists' backstage world is so marvelously detailed, including as it does revelations...