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...Gates is essentially a spy-versus-spy battle between two snipers. It is only after the first couple of cinematographically beautiful and appropriately gory war is really really bad scenes that we meet our hero. Vassily Zaitsev (Jude Law) is a peasant who has been taught to sharpshoot by his grandfather. Distractingly, he and many of the other Russian characters in this film all sport British accents. But beyond that, Law, with his infamously blue eyes and pretty face, is much more fit to play British royalty than a dingy Russian peasant who can barely write. We must forgive...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No 'Enemy' of Mine | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...rules to buy customer data from the Baby Bells. MCI estimates that it spent between $10 and $15 to reach each residential customer in the election, more than three times the cost for AT&T. Says Charles Skibo, president of US Sprint: "AT&T had the data to sharpshoot and pick off select targets. We were shooting in the dark with a scatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratifying a Winner in the Phone Vote | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...suspect area of the knoll, 2) the purported figure of a rifleman was actually a tree's shadow, 3) the raised object was probably a vehicle in a parking lot behind the knoll, and 4) because of abutments and other obstructions, it would have been virtually impossible to sharpshoot from the vehicle's position on the knoll. "Exhaustive studies," said Itek, "failed to turn up any new evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Shadow on a Grassy Knoll | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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