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...film anti-Jewish? Well, which Jews? Start with the Sanhedrin, the rabbinical senate that found Jesus guilty of violating temple law and handed him to the Roman authority for summary punishment. The rabbis had their reasons; they saw the upstart as dangerous, blasphemous, possibly insane for proclaiming himself the Messiah and telling his followers they would live forever if they ate his flesh and drank his blood. The film sees the rabbis as doctrinally pure but politically corrupt. Indeed, it suggests they are a rogue cell calling a midnight caucus for a frame-up. But Gibson also shows many Jews...
With the overall score knotted 3-3, all the pressure lay on Chu’s shoulders, and as the freshman played the day’s last match against veteran Tar Heel senior Kendrick Bunn, it seemed that the feisty upstart might actually prevail twice...
...This year, Philips and European upstart Mission will introduce TVs built into mirrors (the TV disappears when the power is turned off). The design is aimed at hotels but will soon be available for sale to the public...
...been contacting local retailers—including Newbury Comics, the Coop, Harvard Bookstore and Tower Records—to give the album shelf space. Some retailers may set up displays for the Veritas compilation; Tower is considering putting it in a listening booth. Surette is also in talks with upstart online organizations such as iTunes and Napster 2.0 about getting the music into their catalogs. The individual bands will also sell the album, but the main venue for distribution will be a massive outdoor concert party that will mark the album’s release...
...Russia’s powerful oligarchs has become routine: An obscenely rich Russian criticizes the president, often on his own TV station; Putin sends ski-masked officers from the Federal Security Service—the successor organization to the KGB—to confiscate assets and arrest the upstart; and the oligarch either escapes abroad—usually to London—or languishes in prison until he accedes to the president’s demands. Khodorkovsky hasn’t gotten past the languishing-in-prison stage, and, unlike his predecessors, it looks as though he will stand...