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Back in 2000, Steve Martin was talking about the hack writer's trick of getting sympathy for one character by making another one a total rotter. "I think that's the cheap and ugly way out," he said. "What I hate in movies - I mean action movies - is, 'We need the audience to really hate the bad guy. So let's have him kill two 6-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...When we’ve played them I think four out of the last five years, they’ve ranked in the top 10 in total defense and they’re right there again this year,” Murphy said...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Multi-faceted Crimson To Take on Leopards | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Embryonic,” for all its surprises, fits logically within the Lip’s ethic—its existence as a double album that insists on a total listening experience is anachronistic in the way the band is known for. Whether this plays to the strengths of the new material is up for debate—there are certainly moments that are lost in the continuum. It’s unclear whether those more sedate tracks like “Evil,” “If” and “Sagittarius Silver Announcement?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Flaming Lips | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...Pakistani Taliban dramatically escalated their wave of terror on Thursday, mounting five deadly gun and bomb attacks that killed a total 37 people and rattling the country in an apparent attempt to stave off an impending military offensive targeting its base in the mountainous wilds of South Waziristan. In the fifth day of bloodshed in the past 10 days, teams of well-trained gunmen trained their weapons on three high-profile law-enforcement buildings in Lahore, the cultural capital, in a sophisticated attack that chillingly resembled last November's assault on Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coordinated Attacks Unleashed on Lahore | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...spray the clouds from Nov. 15 to March 15 - and only to prevent "very big and serious snow" from falling on the city, said Andrei Tsybin, head of the department. This could mean that a few flakes will manage to slip through the cracks. Tsybin estimated that the total cost of keeping the storms at bay would be $6 million this winter, roughly half the amount Moscow normally spends to clear the streets of snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter Without Snow | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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