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...himself into fighting shape, then he gained a ton of weight! Acting!) One more because: Rourke does strong, sensitive work here, which will cheer his old-time admirers and win him new fans. All praise to him, and to Darren Aronofsky for casting the actor and directing him to turn a standard fiction into quirky, coherent behavior. (See TIME's top 10 movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...This decade he did a swell turn, again under a ton of makeup, as a vengeful ex-con in the Robert Rodriguez-Frank Miller Sin City. On his few forays into late-night talk (one visit with David Letterman sticks in my mind), the host would breathe a sigh of relief to find Rourke roguishly charming; the bull hadn't demolished the china. But mostly his rep kept him MIA. When he came up for the role of Randy, he recalled in Venice, Aronofsky told him: "You're a really great actor, and you've just f______ up your career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

Whenever the EC asks a campaign to turn in a staff list, it must do so within 24 hours, with each staff member’s signature. This request can be made in the course of investigations into infractions or simply as a routine check...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak and Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Election Commission Suspends Flores Campaign | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...race took a turn late last night when Flores' campaign was suspended for the rest of the election—which ended at noon today—for forging a signature on its staff list. But the Flores campaign responded in a heated statement that the student whose signature was forged, Black Men’s Forum President Sangu J. Delle ’10, had given electronic permission for someone else to sign for him since he was out of the country and that this represented a "good faith" effort...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flores-McLeod Win U.C. Election | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...should abandon this line, for two reasons. First, security in Afghanistan has deteriorated so much that the 20,000 troops you have proposed to send are no longer enough to turn the tide against the Taliban. Second, America’s war on terror is no longer centered in Afghanistan, or even Iraq. Al Qaeda now works primarily out of Pakistan...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Obama: Break Your Afghan Pledge | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

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