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When George Clooney set out to make “Good Night, and Good Luck,” he wanted to do more than just tell the story of the television journalists who brought down Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s. Clooney wanted “to make a film as a journalist would make a film,” star David Strathairn—who plays the protagonist Edward R. Murrow—tells a roundtable of reporters in Boston last month. “Everything in the movie was double-sourced...
...mediocre spin on the sports drama genre. McConaughey plays Brandon Lane, an ex-college quarterback whose knee injury permanently removes him from the playing field. Washed up, stuck in a cubical that “looks like a Turkish prison,” Brandon’s luck finally changes when he receives a call from big-time sports-betting magnate Walter Abraham (Al Pacino). Walter works off of one principle: “Know what you know, know what you don’t know, and know that everything you know I gotta know as soon as you know...
...with someone else. Collegiate sailing in two-person dinghies emphasizes fleet and team racing. The fact that the college sailing circuit is more focused on the two-person game has not altered Johnson’s overall focus. “There’s still a hint of luck involved, and it’s still impossible to have a perfect race,” he said. “It’s always a game of who makes the fewest mistakes and who stays the most consistent.” In a sport that punishes chance mistakes...
...Along with luck and formidable bombmaking abilities, Azahari and Nurdin, once colleagues in the geophysics department of an obscure Malaysian university, have one other critical talent?the ability to convince young men to sacrifice their lives in the name of Islam. Azyumardi Azra, a moderate Islamic scholar and rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, argues that a combination of poverty, the speed of societal change since the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998, and the Western military presence in Iraq, has left many young Muslims alienated and receptive to the message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good...
Edward R. Murrow had a greatvoice--a sincere and authoritative baritone. His speech was formal and literate. He was a liberal in the great American tradition--less an ideologue than a champion of fair play and common decency. The first thought you have, watching Good Night, and Good Luck in the age of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, is one of intense nostalgia. By the standards of modern television--or even television in his time--Ed Murrow was an imposing figure...