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Pain heals. Chicks love scars. Glory … lasts forever: The Replacements (DVD)

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This outrageously corny 2000 flick manages to provide good laughs and some adrenaline, thanks to the on-field hits and the stormin’ music. (more…)

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We do what we must do: Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition)

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After the heart-rending nobility of Abraham Lincoln’s verbal tribute to Gettysburg’s fallen, there is not much else that could do those men justice.

Yet Gettysburg does so. (more…)

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the mysterious equations of love: A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition)

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In the contest of love and Jennifer Connelly against the infinitude of chaos, the match goes to love and Connelly, 1-0. (more…)

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wheels within wheels: Lawrence of Arabia (DVD)

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The haunting soundtrack of this 1962 film presentation of one of the twentieth century’s most ambiguous heroes is not the only thing that leaves one wondering how such artistry could flourish among the certainties of that historical moment. (more…)

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our wounds: Still, We Believe. The Boston Red Sox Movie (DVD)

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For Red Sox fans, 2003 was the year that we finally understood that our world is an evil place.

It was the anteroom to 2004’s glory. It was purgatory, a furnace of affliction. It was the sum of all our fears. For a moment, when we could not summon the strength to look away from the horror, it seemed that we had descended to hell. Momentarily, Dante was a sportswriter for the Globe, all was darkness, and the unbearable screaming just wouldn’t stop. (more…)

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storm of storms: Elie Wiesel, Night

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Though the word ‘Holocaust’ has become the most common cipher for one of mankind’s greatest crimes, many Jews and other rememberers of 1939-1945 object to the borrowing of this biblical term to name Hitler’s mass murder.

Why? Because a ‘holocaust’ is a burnt offering that satisfies God. Who, it is asked, can think that the extermination of European Jewry served any purpose, let alone the pacification of an angry deity? (more…)

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man talk: Cigar Aficionado magazine

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Cool cars, expensive vodka, Italian suits, football, golf and its accoutrements, watches named after international capitals.

Oh, and cigars. (more…)

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redemption: 2004 World Series. Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals (DVD)

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Two years later, the Red Sox fan still wakes up on the odd morning late in September thinking it never happened. It was a utopian dream, the comfort of the drugged and sleeping. (more…)

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capitalism’s numbers: Barron’s

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On any list of pure English-language business reportage, Barron’s would figure in the top ten. This newspaper-style weekly compiles more numbers than just about any other publication.

Though ‘fluff’ is not a word commonly associated with the Wall Street Journal, think of Barron’s as ‘WSJ without the fluff’. That’s how focused it is. (more…)

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what guys think about: Men’s Health magazine

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You can tell a lot about the readership a men’s magazine is trying to reach by scanning the first three car ads. In the issue in front of me, they flog the Lincoln MKZ, Range Rover Sport, and Audi A6. (more…)

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