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...pulpy heart the movie is a display of grotty special effects: legions of lesions on the zombies' faces and lots more. There's a dead woman a hospital orderly refers to as a "no-brainer ... her brain's scooped clean out of her skull." Rose McGowan, who's the movie's cynical, go-go-dancing heroine, loses most of her leg to the zombies. "I ain't never seen me a one-legged stripper," observes an evil guy played by Tarantino, "an' I been to Morocco!" Soon, but not soon enough given Tarantino the actor's tendency to slaver...
...Resource operates as a full-service community bank, and anyone is welcome to walk through its recycled-glass doors. But the deposits are used to finance loans for environmentally conscious projects, including alternative energy, clean tech, organic farming and sustainable home and office construction. A special lending program enables green builders to get lower interest rates, while home owners can finance solar-power installations for about the same cost as their monthly electricity bill...
Compared with Iraq and Walter Reed, the firing of the U.S. Attorneys is a relatively minor matter. It is true that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, but they are political appointees of a special sort. They are partisans, obviously, but must appear to be above politics--not working to influence elections, for example--if public faith in the impartiality of the justice system is to be maintained. Once again Karl Rove's operation has corrupted a policy area--like national security--that should be off-limits to political operators...
...special is an interesting test of the real power of Idol--to see if viewers love it enough to vote with their wallets as well as their cell phones. But it's a risk too, to mess with the formula, possibly endanger the brand. Idol's virtues as TV are its simplicity and its almost hermetically sealed environment. When you watch Idol, there's no world outside Idol; it makes for more drama that way. So why break the spell by introducing the complicated problems of the outside world...
...high above rookie status. “Coming into this year, I knew [O’Connor] was going to do great things,” senior tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “But as we have gone through the year, I guess I knew something special was going to happen. The sky was the limit.”At Oxford Academy in New York, O’Connor garnered four New York state championship titles and was a five-time sectional champion. O’Connor was also named first team All-America and a member...