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...realistic portrayal of doomed prostitutes, dejected transvestites and predatory ex-cons, and was also scorned for its graphic depictions of rape, beatings and drug abuse. (TIME called it a "dirty book.") The work was the subject of obscenity trials in the U.S. and Britain, although both cases were eventually thrown out. "I knew these people," he told the New York Times, describing his characters. "How can anybody look inside themselves and be surprised at the hatred and violence in the world? It's inside...
...bottom of the third inning, senior shortstop Rachel Goldberg singled to centerfield with one out. But she was thrown out on a fielder’s choice play as Kidder reached first. With Stefanchik at the plate, Kidder was caught stealing...
...talked about his senior pitchers, Jason Brown and Mike Morgalis, and how they deserved better fates in their final Ivy weekend. He talked about how Brown had never thrown as hard as he did that day, and about how Morgalis had been shafted by the umpires the day before...
Israel's assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Hamas' leader in Gaza, has thrown the Islamic movement's chiefs into a panic. Coming less than a month after Israel eliminated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Rantisi's killing forced underground Gaza's political leaders. It also dangerously deepened fissures between the group's military and political factions. Fighters in its military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, fear that surviving political leaders are less committed than Rantisi was to attacking Israel, say senior Hamas sources in Gaza. Izzedine al-Qassam members want to strike back at Israel soon to avenge Rantisi's death...
...coupling of Julianne Moore with this formulaic froth. The second, the marriage of product placement and movie making. The offspring of that particular happy union is this movie, an extended advertisement for Pepsico, various other snackfood products, and the Ireland tourism board, with some half-hearted cosmetic surgery humor thrown in for good measure...