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...orgies of blood and guns are here to stay, and rather than upset the balance, the goal of studios should be to enrich what’s already available. It’s plain wrong to claim that blockbusters need to exist as brainless, heartless machines in order to succeed. There have been a number of superior action movies offered in recent years, with equal shares of proficient filmmaking and mass appeal. Dirty Pretty Things, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, City of God and Kill Bill: Volume One all have the key ingredients of a successful...
...They changed pitchers, and we didn’t do a very good job of sitting back and doing what we had been doing [to succeed],” Mann said. “It was slower pitching, and it got tougher for us to be patient and wait—we got anxious, and we were getting ourselves out while they were stringing together these dinky hits for one big inning...
...Because, he answered, "they run the university justly." By that he meant that unqualified sons of officials were not given places, students were allowed to disagree with professors, and grades were not manipulated. That experience with Hamas, he said, led him to support its members in general "because they succeed politically and militarily...
...defensively inferior Yankees captain Derek Jeter, ARod, desperate to abandon the train-wreck Texas Rangers, agreed to play third. More challenging than standing 40 feet closer to the batter will be playing in an atmosphere where anything other than a World Series victory is considered failure. If he can succeed at that, the sport's best player could finally give baseball a Michael Jordan--size star, as long as people outside New York City can celebrate another happy Yankee...
...modest Houstonian with the hinted Texas drawl and the no-bones, straight-arrow demeanor leans forward in his seat. Can he succeed in professional baseball...