The Last Word

Bob Knight Wants The Last Word On Everything. Why Do We Bother Listening

... but didn't want to do the things TV analysts are asked to do: show up for production meetings; go to shoot-arounds; talk to coaches about their teams. It was beneath him. Bob Knight asking a coach for a few minutes of his time. No way. And so, ESPN slowly moved him down the announcing ladder before finally giving up and firing him two years ago. Now, Knight is back in Lubbock, hunting and fishing, virtually alone. Insider: Weighing pros, cons of possible IU coaching candidates. Every once in a while, someone gives him a chance to show up in public: Trump last summer, Patrick two weeks ago. Knight does it because he's still trying to get in the last word. The court at Assembly Hall should have his name on it. He should return there to the cheers of the multitudes. He should be enjoying everything he accomplished in coaching and reveling in the relationships he built during that time. Instead, he goes on the radio ...

Uganda’s Agricultural Crisis

... and fast maturing) and apply tractors and combine-harvesters. For the last 30 years there has been little or no application of modern technology in agriculture. Thus we have few places where they use irrigation; use of fertilizers is even below Sub Sahara African standards, there has been minimum application of tractors and combine harvesters (so post-harvest losses are very high), we have very low adoption of improved seed varieties which are fast maturing and high yielding. Thus, growth in agriculture in Uganda has been sluggish precisely because it is driven by increasing the number of hands using the hoe, lengthening the time spent digging in the garden and increasing the acreage of land under cultivation. Kant Kanyarusoke. Part of the problem is our (we as citizens) own expectation of government to initiate everything. You see young ‘old man’, the ...

Unfavorable 'terms

... specifications. Hercules would be daunted by such labor – Harriet has no friends, no sympathetic colleagues, no un-estranged family – and Anne is no Hercules. She’s a writer with ambition but no courage, stuck at a dead-end print job and now saddled with the most unpleasant assignment of her career. From such apparent mismatches are buddy movies made, and The Last Word hews to genre norms, helped by appealing leads and an unusual (if not entirely laudable) feat of screenwriting candor. Harriet scripts her own obituary and decides it will be better if she is known to have provided volunteer assistance to a “minority or cripple” – and cynically sets about doing just that. Thus, the movie takes its own shamelessness (Ann Jewell Lee Dixon joins the gang as a precocious mascot) and incorporates it into the plot, wearing it almost like insulation. Fake friendship, of course, turns into real feeling. Other calculated Harriet initiatives also become sincere, and the parallel personal circumstances of the lead ...

Uganda’s Real Oil Curse

... curse” in terms of the “Dutch Disease” and the adverse incentives it creates that foster corruption in politics. The Dutch Disease refers to the tendency of oil revenue windfalls to kill other productive sectors of the economy. This happens when oil revenues lead to the appreciation in the value of the national currency thereby making a country’s other exports less competitive. There is also the corrupting effect of oil on national politics. For instance, all governments need money to secure their political survival. This money can be used for basic things like paying the security services to ensure law and order. It can also be used to buy off powerful elites and make them loyal to the government. Governments also need revenues pay for public services for their citizens in order to secure their loyalty. If revenue is collected as taxes from multitudes of anonymous citizens in the marketplace, government would be driven by self-interest to govern in a more enlightened way. Such governments would be inclined to negotiate with citizens about ...

Trainspotting,' 'the Last Word,' 'wilson

... happy turns, Mac Laine sets out to restructure the narrative. Reviews for "The Last Word" haven't been very kind. Arizona Republic critic Bill Goodykoontz  gave it 2½ stars (out of 5), all for Mac Laine's full-throttle performance: "If it wasn’t for her, it would be near-unwatchable.". "The Last Word" is rated R for language. It runs for 107 minutes. Dax Shepard (from left), Michael Pena and Rosa Salazar get ready to hit the road in "CHi PS.". (Photo: Warner Bros.). 'CHi Ps'. The week's other big-screen redo of a TV franchise, "CHi Ps," turns the goofy pair of L. A. motorcycle highway patrol cops from the 1970 s show into a bike-riding wizard permanently addled by pain medication, played by Dax Shepard, and a reckless undercover cop, played by Michael Peña, assigned to find bad apples in the motorized unit. Kristen Bell, Rosa Salazar, Adam Brody and Vincent D'Onofrio co-star. "CHi Ps" is rated R for crude sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, some violence and drug use. It runs for 101 minutes. Wilson is an over-sharing, no-boundaries misanthrope who ...

Rethinking Africa’s Development

... the prompting if not acquiescence and prompting of the political leadership. In the USA Washington was instrumental in setting the tone of what was expected of an American president. He could have easily chosen to rule as long as he wanted. The other founders who were always constantly bickering amongst each other (sounds familiar isn’t it?) wanted him to lead for ever, probably as a solution to their in fighting. He thought otherwise and handed over power peacefully. The political leadership is key especially in the initial stages before the formation of a strong(er) business class. To suggest otherwise is to put the cart before the horse. Africa is just an unfortunate continent events that happened in the 17 th Century in Europe & America are still happening in Africa now yet the world was created on the same day but some how we have that convenient scapegoat of ” our leaders are the problem”. Because of winter in Europe and America the citizens there are forced to think hard coz the cold there alone can kill e.g if one has no warm clothing and heating systems in the home they can ...

The Last Word

... Mac Laine is Harriet Lauler, a once successful businesswoman in tight control of every aspect of her life. As she reflects upon her accomplishments, she's suddenly inspired to engage a young local writer, Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried), to pen her life's story. When the initial result doesn't meet Harriet's high expectations, she sets out to reshape the way she is remembered, with Anne dragged along as an unwilling accomplice. Bleecker Street. Movie Trailer: 'The Last Word'. Movie review: 'Power Rangers'. Audra Mc Donald on singing the works of composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman in 'Beauty and the Beast'. Movie trailer: 'Beauty and the Beast'. Movie Trailer: 'A United Kingdom'. Movie trailer: 'Kong: Skull Island'. Zoey Deutch on the journey to make 'Before I Fall'. Tim Mc Graw talks about writing 'Keep Your Eyes on Me'. Movie Trailer: 'A United Kingdom'. 'A United Kingdom' is the true story of the forbidden love of King Seretse Khama of Botswana (David Oyelowo) and Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), a ...

The Last Word & The Sense Of An Ending; Reflections On Life

... than their effect on Tony’s understanding of the way he impacts those around him. As with “Broken Flowers,” it’s likely to leave at least some viewers feeling as though little has happened, as the arc is all within the lead character’s self-discovery. Both films fall into a category I like to think of as all-ages coming of age movies, as these self-searching expeditions to find one’s place in the world can be just as significant at 80 as at 18. There are similar themes in other films about older adults, including Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” as well as next week’s somewhat less senior-focused “Wilson” starring Woody Harrelson. Both are also pleasantly surprising in their feminist sub-texts. “The Last Word” is a welcome example of strong female characters discussing life and succeeding in it, standing in contrast to some other films that ...