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...first started to emerge in Nigeria. Named after this West African country, the “Nigeria scam” presents itself as a way to steal millions of dollars from disorganized, foreign governments. Its myriad permutations all follow a general pattern: an unsolicited e-mail arrives from a stranger claiming to be a government official, usually in Nigeria. He has come across ten to 60 million dollars that are unaccounted for in the government’s books, and he offers 20 percent of it in exchange for helping him remove the money from the country...
...single page in length. A professorial older gentlemen gets out of his car, dropping a piece of paper. Suddenly a colleague runs up to Cranbury and thrusts something in his face, shouting "look!" "It's a leaf," states Cranbury, flinching at the man's enthusiasm. Then the stranger, who is apparently one of those irritating people who sees "magic" in everything, says "No? Look?" We see the leaf. Cranbury, like us, remains mutely dumbfounded. That's it. Stare all you like you won't get it. Basically it's a shaggy dog story, but it doubles as a portrait...
Rangel is no stranger...
Tubridy is no stranger to the boards as she regularly achieves double-doubles and even tallied 19 rebounds against Idaho State last year...
...cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image framing of a Robert Bresson tragedy...