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Director Todd Phillips made the agreeable Ferrell film Old School, and he can frame catastrophe with a comedic elegance, but he's hamstrung by another reductive script from hot writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (Four Christmases, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). Virtually every joke either is visible long before it arrives or extends way past its expiration date. Even the welcome presence of Heather Graham and a deeply weird cameo by Mike Tyson can't save a bromance so primitive it's practically Bro-Magnon...
...humor here: virtually every joke either is visible long before it arrives or extends way past its expiration date. There's no question that Phillips's Old School had a high quotient of shambling fun, and he can frame catastrophe with a certain comedic elegance, but he's hamstrung by another reductive script from Lucas and Moore, whose Four Christmases and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past boasted clever structures and no acuity at all in the character and gag departments. Even Galifianakis's pervy charm, and a deeply weird cameo by Mike Tyson, can't save The Hangover. Whatever the other...
...money and damages demanded by the recording companies. It’s one of resistance in the face of repression by constricting federal authorities. It’s about the Internet as a vast frontier, a sea of knowledge and openness whose limitless utility runs the risk of being hamstrung by interference and regulation. Most fundamentally, it’s about freedom—springing the interests of the individual from authoritarian influence, allowing the enjoyment of benefits without arbitrary hindrance, forcing the conservative interests to let go. “The way it feels to me is that...
...Students were hissing at unpopular political views and really hot political issues,” Steiker says. “The political dysfunction slopped over into student life.”Beyond making life uncomfortable for the political minority, the ideological divides among the faculty also hamstrung lateral hiring efforts for the two decades prior to Kagan’s deanship. Because a new candidate requires a two-thirds majority vote of approval in the faculty, professors who were ideologically opposed to new hires could and did grind the hiring process to a halt.In contrast, Kagan introduced an emphasis...
...mass extraditions have stymied Colombian prosecutors looking into paramilitary massacres and land grabs and hamstrung their efforts to compensate the victims of these crimes. True, the extradited all face lengthy prison terms in the U.S. But because they only have to answer for their drug crimes, the warlord defendants now have little motive for elaborating on their human rights atrocities back in their homeland. Only one has provided Colombian prosecutors with extensive testimony, though teams from the Colombian attorney general's office are in the U.S. this week to try again. "The investigations lost a lot of momentum because...