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...Hope you like thinly veiled sexism. The women of The Jackal function only to jump-start the barely realized "vendetta" between Mulqueen and The Jackal. The film's best character by far, Major Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora), is wasted (literally and figuratively) to give the ineffectual Mulqueen another score to settle--a terrible thing to do to a strong, interesting female character. The script tries to redeem itself by giving Mulqueen's former girlfriend, Isabella (Matilda May), a key role in the resolution of the plot; but because her role is so impoverished throughout most of the film, the effect...
...shocked by Susannah Mandel's article about Macbeth. I saw it on opening night and returned on Saturday night to see it again. Mandel writes one of the worst reviews I have ever read. It is as if she has a personal vendetta against Pablo Colapinto '00, the actor playing Macbeth. She spends the entire article laying into him. She writes: "Speaking in a tone of mingled peevishness and self-pity, he proceeds to recite Macbeth's lines as though he's whining at Fate for giving him such a hard time...
...Vendetta was the name of the game this weekend. Harvard beat both Ivy League rivals this weekend and enters the Ivy Tournament as the undefeated top seed...
What, exactly, is Thomas B. Cotton's point in his editorial "Promises and Covenants" (Oct. 3)? He moves back and forth between irrelevant and inaccurate statistical analysis and the fulfillment of some ill-defined vendetta against feminist organizations such as the National Organization of Women...
This was not what gun enthusiasts wanted to hear. "Dr. Feel-Good of the gun-ban crowd," one of them labeled Wintemute. Under pressure from the gun lobby, federal funding for gun studies has been slashed. But Wintemute insists he is not on an antigun vendetta. Rather, he wants to get at the roots of firearms violence: why it has climbed to the highest levels of the century, why so many children are shooting children, whether easy access to guns is in itself a stimulus to violence. If that means putting heat on manufacturers and dealers...