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...Last year, Harvard lost to Dartmouth one week after blowing out the Big Green, then lost a feisty game at Penn three weeks later after its exam break. But if the players turn those gut-wrenching losses into exhilarating victories in 2009, the script may be different this time...
...Later,” but his ability to create fully-realized worlds within his films is still on full display. The slums of Mumbai are a brightly colored fantasy world in which boys ride on top of trains and industry is but a cold and brutal intrusion.Writer Simon Beaufoy turns the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film’s overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization. Jamal...
...about her waist,” said Felicity, but her venom had not the slightest effect on her husband’s serene countenance. He sighed softly, and smiled.“You look lovely, Felicity,” Frederick said, and now it was Felicity’s turn to lose her bearings. Her heart leapt a little in her chest. Could she possibly have missed her husband’s fumbling attentions? Not physically, to be sure...Yet she had enjoyed his flattery in their days of courtship. Frederick went on:“You are like...
...phone when he calls (the title itself is a call to get up and answer the phone). “Friends” is a low-register, jazz-tinged ballad about the falsity of his friends. “Friends / Won’t ever desert you / Or turn against,” the chorus ironically reiterates.“Last Words,” chronicling J. Smith’s final utterances, reaches the melodic peaks of Travis’s earlier music, although there are new, darker undertones. Jingling, jangling, paced by drumstick clacks, it manages to seem...
...Obama doesn't have to turn the economy around overnight. After all, Roosevelt hadn't ended the Depression by 1936. Obama just needs modest economic improvement by the time he starts running for re-election and an image as someone relentlessly focused on fixing America's economic woes. In allocating his time in his first months as President, he should remember what voters told exit pollsters they cared about most - 63% said the economy. (No other issue even exceeded...