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Sometimes, we watch hockey as if it’s a video game. We cheer every vicious check. We like big hits. When someone gets blindsided at center ice, we slap our buddy on the arm and say, “Ho-ho! Did you see that...
...talks with Britain and France about setting up a reciprocal accord - Europe still has no organized distribution network. Cinema may have been invented in Europe, but since the advent of talking pictures, Hollywood has reigned supreme. That global domination of the $52 billion cinema industry now relies on a vicious economic cycle: as the cost of filmmaking rises, studios balance the checkbook by casting their nets wider, showing their films in more countries to more paying customers; movies become high-tech spectacles and stars demand higher salaries; and so the cost of filmmaking rises, and the cycle begins anew. Europe...
...measure, her big brother is one of the best defensemen in the ECAC. An All-Rookie team selection last season, he has a vicious slap shot, mean streak, and rough-and-tumble 5’11, 210-pound build. He’s also a team captain in only his second collegiate season...
...midst of a vicious interhouse war involving the dastardly distribution of dead fish in doordrops and the nefarious thievery of beloved house banners, peace between the battling factions of Mather and Kirkland seems about as likely as a Bush-Kucinich presidential race. In the meantime, those troubled by the cloud of conflict can defer to a little glimmer of what could be, a veritable symbol of peace, in Austin...
...illustrates the limitations of taking a statistical approach to educational accountability measures. But the most dire trend identified by the report—an undergraduate graduation rate of between 41 and 45 percent, far lower than the national average of 54 percent—is hardly surprising, considering the vicious beating public school budgets have taken in three successive years of funding cuts...