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...less complex character to portray, but Lawrence Fishburne's performances is no less believable. His dual nature as wife beater taskmaster , and needy husband are clearly conveyed. The irony of their parallel fears--his fear of his wife's success and overarching name recognition and Tina's own trepidation that come with the increasing responsibilities--is cleverly evoked through the acting, the screenplay and the director's choreography of the dialogue...
...what turned out to be its first dual meet of the season, the Crimson trounced the lightly-regarded Engineers yesterday morning on the Charles. Harvard crossed the finish line in 6:15, a full 25 seconds in front...
...Russians took turns explaining the situation. The plan to buy certain rare metals from a factory dismantling warheads would have to be revamped. Even though my companion was interested in purchasing only "dual use" rare metals (rather than unequivocally illegal material, such as plutonium), there was a problem. Last summer, they said, more than a dozen plant directors and supervisors from Sverdlovsk-45 -- most of them KGB officers attached to the facility -- had been arrested and sent to prison for conspiring with the mafia to sell enriched uranium and plutonium abroad. Moscow had sent in a new KGB colonel...
...leader of Sinn Fein came early to this dual role. In 1972, as street battles between Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists raged in Belfast, Adams was arrested by the British army and interned without charge. "There is nothing like being in an interrogation room to test your commitment," he says. He became a prison leader, and at 23 he was plucked out of jail with other I.R.A. veterans to negotiate a cease-fire in London. The peace pact was short-lived, and soon Adams was back behind bars, where he settled down to a "monastic regimen of studying, research...
Voldins mentioned that he is trying to get the team to peak for a dual meet at Brown for the Stein Trophy. Brown took the trophy for the first time in eight seasons last year...