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...campaign was designed and built to be a dreadnought, an all-big-gun battleship that would rule the waves without being dented, slowed or thrown off course. But it has been caught off guard by a submarine named Barack Obama, running silent, running deep - until he surfaced with a spectacular showing in the first round of fund-raising numbers. What startled Clinton's team was not just Obama's totals or his success at drumming up contributions over the Internet, but also how much he is collecting from the big donors who have fueled Clinton enterprises for the past decade...
...organization during the period of spectacular suicide bomb attacks against Western targets and the kidnappings of foreign nationals in the 1980s. Among those attacks was the suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in October 1983 which killed 241 American servicemen. At that time, Hizballah had yet to publicly declare its existence and goals, and its leaders have always denied involvement in the anti-Western actions. But Toufeili admits that the group was responsible for the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
That’s a pity, because the cast and crew otherwise consistently made the most of limited resources. Linden’s score recognized the fact that the singers’ voices, though strong, were not spectacular, and it accordingly leaned heavily on warm harmonies and stayed away from melodic bravado. Likewise, many jokes flopped on the first go-round, but took off when they reappeared a few minutes later, as though the cast was able to make a scene funny by sheer determination...
...left Cambridge victorious, defeating the men, 114-45, and besting the women, 88-75. “We always know going into a meet that we’re going to be outnumbered,” sophomore thrower Neville Irani said. “We never look for anything spectacular or miraculous. Everyone has certain plans that they go into every meet knowing what they want to accomplish.” The men’s three first-place finishers complemented the seven winners on the women’s team to highlight an afternoon of individual excellence.The men were...
...showing up his superiors in this buddy-cop satire from the spoofmeisters behind Shaun of the Dead. All is not as it seems as Pegg (above right) and his lovably oafish sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths. The twosome pursue criminals so exuberantly and the violence is so spectacular, it's like Lethal Weapon but with brains--and scones...