Why "Argo" doesn't deserve the Oscar

Why "Argo" doesn't deserve the Oscar
You're about to give your best-picture award to Ben Affleck's movie “Argo” – or so everyone thinks right now; we'll get to the doubt and wild speculation in due course – and it's just not that good. … It's true that CIA agent Tony Mendez (played by …
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Football: The oral history of the Pat Fitzgerald era
But before tasting success, the football program, its fans and alumni traveled a long road filled with heartbreaking losses and off-field tragedies. On June 29, 2006, … The following is the story of the Pat Fitzgerald era, and how Northwestern …
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Karen Russell's vampires have bite
It features eight stories, each shot through with dizzying language, in which we're introduced to lemon-munching vampires, silkworm-girls, seagull armies, apocalyptic pioneers, ex-presidents reincarnated as horses, the perilous practice of Antarctic …
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