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...Total paid last week to buy and cover the back taxes on an inch-square plot of land in Indiana, deeded by the previous owner to ensure access to a lake...
...PLOT AGAINST AMERICA PHILIP ROTH When Charles Lindbergh was elected President in 1940, it spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...
...time, the meeting hardly seemed notable--let alone the start of the world's deadliest partnership. It was late in 1999, and Osama bin Laden was sheltering in Afghanistan, already deep into his plot to attack the World Trade Center. His visitor was a burly young Jordanian, bruised and furious after spending six years inside his country's worst prisons. Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi had traveled to Afghanistan with a proposal for the al-Qaeda chief: he wanted to rally Islam's "true believers" to rise up against corrupt regimes in the Middle East. Bin Laden was skeptical. While...
...hapless colleague Brian Runnicles (Rory N. Kulz ’08) find when Francis orders a box of pornographic pictures, thinking she’s ordering glassware. Don’t ask how that’s possible—plausibility is not the strong point of the plot. The driving force of both the plot and the humor is the necessity to dispose of the porn—which continues to be delivered to the house in increasing amounts due to a mistakenly sent check—without the knowledge of several involved parties: the bank above which Peter...
...entertaining fantasy epic film, especially in the wake of the “Rings” series. Adamson inflates the simple, magical allegory of “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” into 140 minutes of unnecessary battle sequences, uninspired acting, and unrealistic graphics. The plot of the book is fairly simple. The four Pevensie siblings—Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter—accidentally escape World War II England by entering a magical wardrobe into Narnia, a land in which it is perpetually winter because of the curse of the evil queen, the White...