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...Bourne Identity. That movie minted a gritty new kind of action film, but its nail-biting production left Universal Studios looking for a new director who could somehow combine edge and efficiency. At a 2003 meeting at the studio, writer Tony Gilroy suggested Greengrass. "There was a grunt of approval," remembers Damon, sitting across from Greengrass in a poolside cabana at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. "I was the one idiot in the room who hadn't seen Bloody Sunday." After the meeting, Damon watched the documentary-style drama about the 1972 massacre of civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland...
...Bringing back mandatory service has been the refrain of many who want to put the brakes on the Iraq war; if every young man is suddenly a potential grunt on his way to Baghdad, the thinking goes, the war would end rather quickly. It's also an argument made by those who are uneasy that the burden of this war is being unfairly shouldered by the 1.4-million-strong U.S. military and no one else. But a new report from the Congressional Budget Office this week makes clear that resuming the draft would be no panacea...
...there would be four new songs that they could listen to. The collector mentality really kicked in and once people caught on to the pattern it became like a compulsion for a lot of people to constantly keep up with. And that was great.”Once the grunt work was over, offers from labels began to roll in. Bishop Allen recently signed to Dead Oceans, a sub-group of the Secretly Canadian record label, where they hope to preserve their “do-it-yourself” mode of operation.“That?...
...began systematically shooting people, almost in rhythm, taking his time. "After every shot I thought, 'O.K., the next one is me,'" Violand said, so he made himself lie perfectly still, lifeless. "Sometimes after a shot I would hear a quick moan, or a slow one, or a grunt, or a quiet, reserved yell from one of the girls. After some time--I couldn't tell you if it was five minutes or an hour--he left. The room was silent except for the haunting sound of moans, some quiet crying and someone muttering, 'It's O.K. It's going...
...legislation, slated for introduction at the next full meeting of the Faculty in April. The council is in the process of translating the recommendations of the general education report into that legislation. “We did not go over substantive issues so much as strategic, procedural stuff, the grunt work to prepare a very complex piece of legislation,” Mendelsohn said. The final version of the general education report was released in February, and the legislation drawn from it should be circulated as early as this week, according to Mendelsohn. Ryan, who is a member...