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...chill morning, the light is thin, the air sweet and the crowd lively as 15,000 of us set off down a country lane lined with old stone walls and houses with Halloween ghosts in the front yard. Survivors wear pink T shirts; a team called Wendy's Warriors wears black ones with F*#! CANCER on the back. It's a beautiful day to walk together for a little while, just five miles, not so much really, except that in the time it takes to finish, 35 more women will learn they have breast cancer--an average of one every...
...hubbub began when Reverend Peter J. Gomes, a professor of Christian morals, asked if the calendar changes would allow for the best use of Faculty time over the year, and if the changes were set in stone...
...getting better and better.” It took less than 90 seconds for the Eagles to answer and tie the score. BC gained possession at midfield and sent a long through ball ahead to Dirks. The senior received the pass with no one but Crimson goaltender Kylie Stone to beat. When Stone came out of the net to challenge her, Dirks simply drifted right and buried a shot into the near corner of the goal...
Controversy comes naturally to director Oliver Stone - particularly when it concerns movies about presidents. In 1991, JFK envisioned a Daley Plaza assassination incorporating a government conspiracy and multiple shooters. In 1995, Nixon theorized as to what was to be found on those missing minutes from the White House tapes (a revelation about a covert CIA operation in Cuba that was launched during the Eisenhower years, was known of by Nixon, and subsequently led to the killing of President Kennedy...
...both cases, Stone was criticized for playing fast and loose with the facts. Perhaps that's why on the eve of W.'s premiere last Friday, the director sought to preempt criticism of the film's factual veracity by posting a comprehensive, 83-part "Film Guide" on the official W. website...