Closer is bleak, icy
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A film far deeper and ruthlessly cynical than most Julia starrers
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The Blue Jays placed a phone call to Menasha, Wis., last night. As the crow flies, Menasha is about as far away from baseball&#39;s winter meetings as the southernmost tip of Greenland.
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Closer&quot; presents a fascinating dynamic: Instead of showing us the characters performing their lascivious deeds, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Patrick Marber explore the effects of their actions through dialogue.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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The Fall Classic opened on the edge of winter. A cold and windy Saturday night that was no place for pitchers, defense or anyone without a heavy coat.
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Science & environment: Advances mean cryonics - freezing the dead with the hope of reviving them - could be coming a little closer
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There were two unusual and discussion-worthy instances of closer usage in the first couple of days of Division Series play: Ron Gardenhire sticking with Joe Nathan in the 12th inning of Minnesota&#39;s brutal 7-6 loss to the Yankees in Game 2, and Phil Garner
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For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence.
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So, two months into Lockout II, how are you enjoying the 2004-05 hockey season? Sure is quiet around the rink, and given that no one is sashaying up to the bargaining table, it sure looks like it's going to remain quiet for a lot longer.
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It didn't sound like a concession speech, yet it pointed in an ominous direction: toward the closing of Suffolk Downs, perhaps within weeks, with the prospect of a 2007 racing season at the East Boston racetrack a long shot at best.
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The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.
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Billy Wagner couldn't close it out. Trevor Hoffman couldn't, either. After two of baseball's best closers flopped again last night, Heath Bell had enough moxie to hang on for his first major league save.
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JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland -- If Manhattan floods, it may start here, on an ice field that stretches in frozen silence to every horizon.
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You&#39;re speeding through space at 28 000 kilometres per hour, at times the outside temperature gets down to a chilling minus two hundred degrees Celsius, there is no quick getaway.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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College hockey enthusiasts who eagerly awaited a faceoff last night between New England's only top 10 Division 1 men's teams had to put their plans on hold thanks to the anticipated Blizzard of '05.
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&quot;Closer,&quot; a deliciously nasty little item by the great Mike Nichols, would be a commanding and challenging adult movie no matter when it was made, but coming right now, during these culturally