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...young people with video cameras, throws them into the Maryland woods and lets hysteria ensue. The notion of director Joe Berlinger and writer Dick Beebe is that the five new recruits (Jeffrey Donovan, Tristen Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Erica Leerhsen and Kim Director) know the first film was fake and are cynical of the industry built around it, yet get sucked into the legend. Then everyone goes nuts--this time with flash cuts and gross-out special effects. An all-in-the-mind thriller degenerates into the Linda Blair Witch Project...
...nature of science is that there is no guarantee. If you are in another department, you can fake it. There are doable problems in other fields," Finkelstein says. "But in chemistry you might have a stretch of nine months where nothing works...
Dressed as a wounded ninja, complete with a fake Chinese star glued to the right side of his face, Jacob said the rain made no difference in his decision to go trick-or-treating...
...daughter has reached the age where I can no longer fake expertise in the two subjects I know almost nothing about: sex and money. So far, I've got by with a lot of prevarication, blundering and sending her to her room. But when she came home after school and asked, "How's the Dow?" I realized I was facing a so-called teachable moment. Unfortunately, as one of the three people left in this country who still has her savings in a passbook account, I have a lot to learn before I can teach my kid to play...
That's how Gore's campaign chose to ignore possible opportunities in Georgia and North Carolina and make a stand in Florida--a move the Bush campaign initially dismissed as a fake-out. When efforts in Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach began bearing fruit, the Gore campaign expanded its assault to the Panhandle and finally statewide. Now Bush has been forced to spend more than $8 million--more than twice as much as Gore--to try to hold on to a state where his own brother is Governor. Gore continues to press hard in Florida, but a top campaign...