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...same thing, and it's Wolfe who looks a little behind the times. He leans heavily on catchphrases from such movies as Swingers ("You're money, baby") to give his dialogue a contemporary vibe. There are missteps: What self- respecting black hoopster would say of a Caucasian opponent, however stalwart, "That white boy's got heart"? And are college kids really still into 90210 and Animal House? They certainly don't have PlayStation3s, as such a machine does not, at press time, exist. Sometimes Wolfe has the air of a benevolent, fastidious Martian, as when he expends several sentences explaining...
...much to ask. But that doesn’t mean the Raiders won’t finish near the top of the heap. To do so, they’ll rely upon Jon Smyth, who scored 42 points last year and emerged as a bona fide scoring threat and stalwart netminder Steve Silverthorn...
...harder for U.S. troops in next-door Iraq. The "nightmare scenario" is Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, which would cause worldwide outrage among Muslims. But a grand bargain welcoming Tehran back into the international community has so far failed to interest Bush. RUSSIA/CHECHNYA Bush has been a stalwart friend to Vladimir Putin, who has sold Bush on his view that Chechen rebels are part of global jihad. Bush offered little complaint as Putin cracked down in Chechnya and at home. Putin repaid the favor by openly backing Bush's re-election, and is further strengthened...
Born in Dublin, Hassan is married to an Iraqi, holds British, Irish and Iraqi citizenship and has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She has been a critic of sanctions over the years and a stalwart leader, before and during the war, of efforts to improve the country's faltering water, health and education systems. A few months before the war began, Hassan told TIME the sanctions against Iraq had helped create "a dependent society with little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well...
...partners and employees. Google has an invitation-only network, orkut, and recently launched an exclusive e-mail service, Gmail. If your invitation to snooty sites gets, um, lost in the mail, you can always check out social-networking free-for-alls such as tribe or MySpace or get-together stalwart Meetup...