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...movie seesaws between the twin poles of masochism and sadism. It's a cunning variation on a behavioral test given to college students: they're instructed to push a button that will administer an electric shock to someone in the next room and, often as not, they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more...
...muffed punt-fake was followed by four Crimson interceptions by three different players, the last three of which occurred on Harvard’s final three possessions of the game. Starting signal-caller Chris Pizzotti threw one in his quarter of work, while O’Hagan threw twin picks on the Crimson’s two last-ditch scoring drives late in the fourth quarter. Then, while up 28-24 in the final frame, Harvard called on wideout Chris Sanders to throw a pass as part of a trick reverse. Instead, he lofted the ball into the hands...
...Still, there's a nagging sense among many experts that some mysterious X-factor or factors in the environment tip genetically susceptible kids into autism, though efforts to pin it on childhood vaccines, mercury or other toxins haven't panned out. Genes alone can't explain it; the identical twin of a child with autism has only a 70% to 90% chance of being similarly afflicted...
...teau 30 years ago. He has driven his electric cart along the neat rows of vines and pointed out some of his big recent investments: the state-of-the-art water recycling[an error occurred while processing this directive] system, the new storage and bottling barn and the twin rows of conical fermentation vats. Now comes the moment of truth. Standing in his refurbished tasting room, he picks up a glass of the 2005 vintage, sniffs, sips and sucks the wine noisily through his teeth before spitting it out into a gleaming ceramic basin. He looks up quizzically...
Junior cornerback Andrew Berry may match up against his twin brother, Adam Berry, who is listed as second in the depth chart at wide receiver...