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...Nice try ... I've been told all this intelligence about having wmd, and this is the best we've got?" GEORGE W. BUSH, in a meeting with Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet and other intelligence officials in December 2002, as quoted in Bob Woodward's new book Plan of Attack...
...film begins with the end of the 1836 battle: a visual requiem for the dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her Oscar-winning work. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Centauri whiskey to the natives. There, he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer, and the pair are soon discovering the culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers a career performance, donning the hats of weary voyager...
...let’s get this started. University President Lawrence H. Summers, Athletic Director Bob Scalise, Dean of College Benedict H. Gross ’71, I’ve given you a start. We’ve all read your e-mails on the curricular review and mental health. Now let’s see a “Harvard football is 6-0 and Penn is up next! Get pumped!” e-mail...
...editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; in Canton, Mass. Between 1952 and 1980, she scoured works of literature and history to update and refine the essential reference book. In the classics, she favored Shakespeare and the Bible, expanding the contributions from both, but also introduced quotes from Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan and popular films (e.g., "E.T., phone home...