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WHAT THEY CAN'T DO: Can't avoid causing "collateral damage" to civilians...
...patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also manages to avoid the standard genre trick of trotting out every bland hypocrisy behind the picket fence...
...explore the world as it is", and that, by extension, a literary description could not possibly express the nature of a physical image as well as a visual representation of the image itself. Her point, then, is to let the real imagery of destruction speak for itself, to avoid prescription and interpretaion. She doesn't offer answers or criticisms, but the art alone, naked, unadorned...
...over the Huskies gives Harvard its first win over a ranked opponent all season. The senior class finishes with a 3-1 career record against the traditional local power. Having lost close games at No. 2 Michigan and No. 6 Michigan St. last weekend, the Crimson managed to avoid resuming its Ivy schedule at Cornell on Sunday with a three-game losing streak...
...reason to be wary of the way Bush is handling his job “overall,” which is the term pollsters use when questioning people. We are plunging towards national debt because Bush pushed a huge tax cut through Congress that depended on the surplus to avoid eating into federal programs. Now, with that surplus fast shrinking and $55 billion in new spending stemming from the attacks, Bush has asked for a new $75 billion tax cut. Consumer confidence is at its lowest in years, the airlines are failing and our economy is teetering on the brink...