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Based on H.G. Bissinger’s best-selling non-fiction book of the same title, the story chronicles Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) and his Permian Panthers’ 1988 season from the first day of pre-season to its rousing conclusion on the turf of the Astrodome some months later. Thanks in large part to their nationally recruited running back, Boobie Miles (Derek Luke), the Panthers are widely projected to return the title to Odessa...
...defense was calm and disciplined, waiting for one of the two Leopard quarterbacks to make a mistake. While the play-action fooled occasionally, for the most part a trio of white Harvard jerseys trailed the Lafayette quarterback from snap to harried pass to turf. Odds were that harried pass was going to eventually land in the arms of a Crimson defender. And three times during the game, that’s exactly what happened...
Over the past two decades, though, persistent drought has forced the Arabs to move to more arable lands, straining relations with the Africans. In the late 1980s, competition for turf began to turn violent. Light arms poured into the region from neighboring Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to occasional massacres. Hostilities simmered for more than a decade. But the spark for war came in April last year, when, following two months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town...
...third field goal was a bit more difficult, coming from 37 yards out on the right hash. Nolan got this clear of the line, but pushed it left. The ball went on to meet unceremoniously with the left upright and fall harmlessly to the endzone turf. (More on hitting uprights and crossbars later...
Kerry can win this debate if he tackles it head on. Instead of ducking the connection between democracy and security for fear of strengthening Bush, the senator should take the battle to the president’s turf. Kerry must explain how a realistic, far-sighted approach to promoting democracy could yield real success, where Bush’s policy has resulted—in the president’s own words—in “catastrophic success...