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...brief romantic spark. But it becomes clear - as the young man gathers around him a half-dozen battle-tested guys, led by Draco (that chiseled slab of testosterone Mads Mikkelsen), to confront Medusa and save Argos - that this Clash is a movie of men at work and at war, of hardened soldiers on an impossible mission. This is less the saga of a solo superhero than a paean to male teamwork, in the style of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, which itself was a homage to classic Hollywood director Howard Hawks (Air Force, Rio Bravo). Perseus...
Recently, a novelty e-mail account flame war broke out on Pfoho's open list after Sigmund Freud invited subscribers to "bring it like the cheerleaders in that terrible teen movie." Later, Elizabeth I and Mary I accused each other of heresy and papism before Henry VIII stepped in to claim England's throne for Edward VI. In response, God accused these "royal buffoons" of fraud, Friedrich Nietzsche announced, "God is dead," and many readers were left wondering "what the pfuck is going...
...compared with the nearly $20 million held by its Democratic counterpart. The Republican committee in the Senate that finances campaigns had $12.9 million on hand, compared with $14.3 million available to Senate Democrats. And the Republican National Committee trailed the Democratic National Committee, $9.5 million to $10.7 million. The war-chest gap in the House is the most notable, because that chamber is the one Republicans have the highest hopes of recapturing...
...only at the age of 21, when he tried to join the military during the Vietnam War, that officials informed him of his illegal status for the past seven years...
Worse, many believe the policies have helped stoke the Taliban's war against the coalition by uniting residents against the Afghan soldiers who destroyed their opium crops. "Eradicating marijuana and opium fields can breed resentment by people and be destabilizing," says John Dempsey, a rule-of-law adviser to U.S. and Afghan officials for the U.S. Institute of Peace. He cites the town of Marjah, in Helmand province, where U.S. forces rolled tanks over poppy fields in a major offensive in February, two years after Afghan forces destroyed the local farmers' opium crops. After those antidrug offensives, Dempsey says, "local...