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Digital cameras today have large preview screens. Gone are those hard-to-use tiny buttons and dials and those confusing icons. Replacing them are touch-control screens with plain-English menus. Even sophisticated digital cameras offer a "no brains" mode; the only things you need do are frame the shot and push the button. David Henderson, 62, of Alexandria, Va., remembers his early digital cameras. "They gave you a picture that looked like it was taken off a television set," he recalls. "Today's cameras are so good, they give anybody a chance to be a darn good photographer...
While "Inside Man" treads familiar ground, it does so with a deft, fun touch that makes it feel fresher than the average cops-and-robbers soirée. Perhaps its trickiest feat is balancing two distinct storylines: a cop movie (the police are the good guys and the drama is behind the barricades) and a heist movie (the robbers are the good guys and the fun is in seeing them pull off their convoluted plot). It is hard to cheer for both sides at once, but the movie makes it possible (no telling who wins in the end, though...
...goals at Cushing Academy and was the team’s Most Outstanding Offensive Player his junior year, Murphy was asked to be more of a grinding power forward at Harvard. On a team where offensive talent was plentiful, the young freshman needed to exchange some of his touch and finesse for a higher level of physicality.“As a younger guy, you do whatever you can to be in the lineup every night,” Murphy explains. “They wanted me to be on the fourth line and finish all my hits and checks...
...point, and in the last 13 games, Maki has tallied 13 points to Du’s 14 and Murphy’s 14. Night in and night out, the line is solid; sometimes, it is explosive. He had a similar end to last season, but he lost his touch over the summer, maybe, or at the beginning of this season. Whatever the case, the Nashville Predators draft pick never mentions the word “injury” in his analysis. In any case, he’s figured things out. Now, says his coach, Maki...
...face of the principle of religious freedom, just as the furor over the Danish cartoons challenged the principle of freedom of speech, but there's little doubt that any appearance of Western powers seeking to defend the right of Christians to proselytize in Muslim lands would touch off a similar response in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, frontline allies in the war on terror. The Abdul Rahman case highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan, and will raise the ire of the Evangelical Christian political base of the GOP. But Washington will also...