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...they think he’s on board, one of the pigeons frantically whispers to the other, “Don’t freak out, this is how you blew it with Nemo.” “Bolt” is, for the most part, predictably tame. Penny is as saccharine as any Disney princess. Bolt has a requisite crisis of faith in which he questions her love, but this doubt is fleeting—he is reassured after about five minutes. The movie achieves emotional depth, however, in the scenes with Bolt, Mittens, and Rhino. After...
...Carmona’s fate seems tame compared to some of Galileo’s colleagues who were burnt at the stake for believing in heliocentrism, but we don’t live in a late-medieval theocracy. America is the daughter of the Enlightenment, the most technologically advanced country in the world, and a superpower that owes its modern strength to science more than anything else. In order to protect the security and strength of the United States and ensure that we leave our children a planet we would want to live in, it is vital that the next...
...won’t try to bring you down about my suicide”—and continues, “I won’t beg to put you out about my right to die.” But all this feigned moodiness contrasts with the rather tame and generic rock ambience of the music itself. Throughout, you can’t help but wonder if Smith is singing about a real heartache or just crooning about suicide because that’s what he’s supposed to do. As the album progresses it only creates...
...fire to government vehicles. Singh, the police official, said he was hit with one of the stones and required three stitches in his leg. The central government, too, is treating this attack as a significant blow to its attempts to improve security in India, in particular its effort to tame the militancy in the northeast by pouring millions of dollars in development to the area. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to arrive in Guwahati on Friday. With reporting by P.P. Singh/Guwahati
...resurgence of interest in Keynes also doesn't represent a full return to 1960s-style Keynesianism--the belief, shared by many economists and politicians in those days, that government could tame the business cycle and guarantee good economic times indefinitely...