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...Well, Socrates didn’t argue about Wall Street bailouts and health care and same sex marriage," he said. "These are the big questions about our political debates. And just beneath the surfaces of the debates are the big questions of justice... big questions of philosophy...
...didn’t feel great about where we were for a field goal,” Murphy said. “We wanted to try to get something done there. We needed seven points to win the game.”Gordon pushed forward, hitting a wall of linemen. As he struggled to make a hole in the fray, Crusader Marcus Rodriguez tackled the Crimson’s starting tailback to the ground, ending the drive.Harvard’s momentum was dealt a serious blow—as was Gordon.After taking his time to get up, Gordon left...
...film to cherish, but for Cage fans it marks a welcome return to his early days, before he became a conventional leading man in Jerry Bruckheimer films. In his young prime Cage was a weird, tortured actor with highly eccentric impulses; you never knew if he'd punch a wall or eat the flowers. Here he trashes half of lower Louisiana and rips the breathing tube out of an old lady's nose. Both narcotized and energized by his drug regimen, he confronts everybody with the intense stare of a man trying desperately to stay awake, like Robert Mitchum...
...kick the sorority sisters around like footballs. Lesson learned: they all end up dead, maybe. The most egregious sin is the movie’s total lack of suspense. Imminent danger is signaled by the scraping of the murderer’s weapon (a tire iron) against a wall. Suspenseful music, by contrast, delivers no thrilling action, and thus becomes such a frustrating aspect of the movie that by the end there is no uncertainty—however fleeting—of what comes next. Both “Sorority Row” and Theta Pi eventually go down...
Plenty of political concerns have been raised over President Barack Obama's decision to scrap plans to deploy a missile-intercept system in Poland and the Czech Republic. "It's better these days to be a U.S. adversary than its friend," lamented the Wall Street Journal in a Friday, Sept. 18, editorial, implying that the U.S. caved in to Russia in abandoning the missile system. But just because Russia had furiously opposed the missile shield on its doorstep doesn't necessarily mean building it would have been a good idea. The military rationale for Obama's move is hard...