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...Moore conceived the story when Reagan and the Russkies were still spitting threats across the Berlin Wall, and few imagined the Soviet Union could collapse under its own dead weight. In that sense, Watchmen is another replay of the Nixon years to which Hollywood filmmakers are addicted - Frost/Nixon, Milk, etc. - and a period piece that may not resonate with audiences who weren't alive when Tricky Dick was in power. (Snyder says he was asked if Nixon could be replaced by George W. Bush; he wisely declined.) Set in the recent past, it features characters who cannot escape their...
...Walter Peppelman (20-11, 11-7 dual matches) had big shoes to fill this year, following junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor and 2004 National Champion Jesse Jantzen in the 149 lb. weight class...
...Rather than try to unpack the dueling economic models and figure out which side had a better claim to truth, Pooley argues that reporters fell into what he calls the stenography model of journalism, simply reporting both sides with equal weight. The problem is, the two sides weren't equal. The skeptics' models tended to assume, quietly, that the pace of technological advance for renewable energy would be sluggish - significantly raising the costs of trying to cap carbon emissions. The models from the green side - led by the Environmental Defense Fund - tended to be fairer, projecting a range of possible...
...absurd that this is newsworthy, but what's even more absurd is that we waste thousands upon thousands of dollars to ‘scientifically prove’ that eating less leads to weight loss...
...church-going family that tries to educate her, the six foot five Madea is a person of extremes: demanding yet forgiving, playful yet violent. But whether pulling a gun on her relatives at a houseparty or conveying deep hurt when her pothead brother (also played by Perry) ridicules her weight, Madea is a credible character—a madwoman played to a tee. Though it is difficult to identify with Madea, Perry knows her in and out; this is what makes her convincing.The assistant district attorneys, whose potentially-gripping stories dominate most of the movie, are just not as persuasive...