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...Control, the tale of a hitman who doesn't seem to hit, with a quote from the first two lines of Arthur Rimbaud's poem "The Drunken Boat." Some may see this as an alert to pretensions ahead, although my own interpretation was that it serves as a sort of helpful mini-review...
...Written by novelist David Benioff and Skip Woods, Wolverine was directed by Gavin Hood, a South African who earlier made two exercises in political solemnity, Tsotsi and Rendition. The new movie has a sharper look and a smarter film sense, because Hood is surrounded by the sort of artist-technicians who can lend cinematic swank to almost any action picture. But that's now par for the course, and Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence...
...about "Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains." The whole experience spun me around. I really thought this was going to be a fun fling, and I had no idea that it would become this finding my soul mate, the love-of-my-life sort of deal. It does make you feel reticent about talking about it at the beginning because you're not sure if it's real, if it's going to stick. I didn't want to pull an Anne Heche, sheepishly heading back to the car dealership...
...cities are best kept small (making rioting less likely). For the most part, though, he tosses evidence on the table, then walks away. Debunking the supposed link between the Protestant work ethic and the rise of modern capitalism, Beattie notes that "the reality is much more complex"--that any sort of society can choose economic success. He just never says exactly...
...boxes to be read. The office employs about 40 admissions officers, who each are responsible for up to four or five geographic areas, or up to 1,500 folders, McGrath, the director of admissions, explains. “It’s a process of gathering widely and sort of winnowing as comparisons occur over a ten week process,” she says.The area subcommittee chair advocates for the applicant, “as if he were at a trial and he were the student’s attorney, in a sense,” says Fitzsimmons, the dean...