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...latest in controversial evolutionary psychology and Magic Eye illusions doesn’t particularly strike your fancy, take it back to first grade with Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and their Relatives.” The class is a big favorite, so much so that it had to turn some students away last year, and the professor, Charles Marshall, is knowledgeable and easy to understand. Readings? Virtually none. Problem sets? That’s what section is for. So, no work outside of class, and it’s about fucking dinosaurs. Where do I sign up, right...
...those of you who remember Woody Allen's mix of real and reel lives in The Purple Rose of Cairo - or if you sometimes think your life is a movie, and wonder what the DVD commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal...
...been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the ferocious summer battles between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon. With radicals blaming the U.S. in all three wars, it is prudent to assume that some of them may seize this opportunity to strike...
...allowing terrorists to hit a foreign embassy is a different matter altogether. For one thing, Assad's regime knows that could be a casus belli for a U.S. military strike on Syria. Relations have been tense for years. The U.S. recalled its ambassador in Damascus after Syria, despite its denials, was implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in February 2005. Mobs are one thing, but terrorism tells the Syrian people something that no dictator wishes to show: that the regime does not have as tight a grip on the country as it would like...
...It’s cleaner, it’s got nice TVs, but the pizza just doesn’t taste as good, frankly,” Strike said. “Overall I wish they had just given Tommy’s a face lift...