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...week before finals, and Jamie Wilkinson's students are getting nervous. No matter how many videos they post, how many blogs they subscribe to, how many friends they sign up, it just isn't working. They aren't reaching enough people; they still aren't famous enough...
...England's Jonny Wilkinson is brave in defense, obsessive by nature but composed when it counts, and, of course, a deadeye. But the fact he was a star of the tournament while his Kiwi counterpart, Daniel Carter - who has every skill a No. 10 could wish for - disappeared without trace says much about where rugby is. The game's crying out for less kicking and more running. A radical idea: except where foul play has occurred, penalty kicks at goal should be permitted only from within the opposition 22. (And league has it right with its single-point field goal...
...calm subtlety. The man never sweats or, for that matter, raises his voice when the pressure is on him, which it almost always is. At most, he registers anxiety with an almost imperceptible flicker of his eyes. When we meet him, the firm's leading litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) has suffered a serious meltdown in Milwaukee - in the the midst of taking a deposition he has stripped naked and run out babbling into a snowy parking lot. Arthur has been defending an Agrochemical giant called U/North in a class action suit and has discovered a document that proves...
...latest mop-up job is a toughie. During a deposition of plaintiffs in a corporate malfeasance case his bosses want to be settled quickly, the firm's top litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), has gone nuts, cavorting naked in a parking lot. The most superficial familiarity with The Parallax View and other political-paranoia movies of the 70s - or with the crimes of EnRon and other big companies - will cue the viewer to expect corporate dirty tricks at the root of Arthur's frayed mental state. The two men will find ruthless adversaries both in the corporation's chief counsel...
...gives me confidence." So do the players - including a peerless loose-forward trio of Jerry Collins, captain Richie McCaw and Rodney So'oialo, and Dan Carter, who exemplifies the difference between a great fly-half and a fly-half who's a great kicker, like England's Jonny Wilkinson. "We have guys," says Bunce, "who can break games open...