Here in the Washington, DC metro area, there are plenty of Penn Staters. Some of these alums are rabid enough football fans to tackle the 400 mile round trip necessary to attend all the home games. Needless to say, they are in shock, and many refuse to speak about the matter at all. While there
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Panned by most of the critics, this movie is a riff on the typical “Honey, we’ve bought a haunted house” scenario. Apparently, the studios took over production, much to the chagrin of helmer Jim Sheridan and the stars. Then again, perhaps it should have been pulled from the director. As the pic opens, NYC publisher
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Not for a single moment does this pic live up to its marketing hype as a medical thriller. At best, it plays like a fancy documentary with some name talent onboard. At worst, it comes off like a vanity project with a script so weak you wonder how it got financed. Maybe teenage boys really
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Regular readers of this column know that I am no big fan of movie critics. It is quite clear that the vast majority of them don’t work terribly hard at their “craft,” and tend to have prefabricated, fixed opinions on most aspects of cinema. To show their supposed sophistication, they know just which names to
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In fairness, you could tell that their luck was running out—almost from the beginning. By all rights, the score should have been 4-0 US at the end of the first half, but our team could just not finish. Surely, there were some coaching issues. After all, despite the lack of success, our side did not
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There has been no shortage of media coverage on this case, so my piece takes a different tack. The title of this article is quite deliberate, in that the victim in this case—two-year-old Caylee—received neither justice nor sufficient attention. Rather, there was an unseemly media feeding frenzy that took full advantage of defense counsel’s lurid
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Despite leading 2-0 early on, our guys could just not maintain it, losing to Mexico 4-2. Clearly, Mexico had the better team, although one wonders how they would have done if they were not allowed to replace five players who were kicked off for drug violations, earlier in the tournament. A rare example of FIFA
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For those of you following the Chinese drywall mess, the Banner settlement is simply the latest scam to come down the pike. Execrable plaintiff’s lawyer Arnold Levin is in charge here, and predictably, the attorneys are set up to get millions, while the affected homeowners might get a few thousand—and that assumes that they can
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Playing well for the very first time in the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament, our team scored a solid 2-0 victory over Jamaica. The Reggae Boyz definitely had some weapons, though, with goalie Donovan Ricketts and speedster attackers Dane Richards and Luton Shelton. Has the US side finally gotten into its groove? That’s why they
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The very convenient announcement, by “unnamed sources” that his wife is pregnant, came out on the heels of further revelations and more sordid details about the congressman. As such, this has all the earmarks of a Clintonesque spin strategy. My take is that she is not pregnant at all, but this is instead a bid
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