By giving the prize to the EU, the Nobel committee has undermined the excellent work of the other deserving winners of this prize.
Ed has excellent qualities but that is not the way to show them.
Their resistance was even more admirable against Argentina, with Mora again making a couple of excellent stops before being beaten by a first-half penalty from Daniel Passarella.
It made an arthouse star of Soderbergh and a heavyweight of his backer, Harvey Weinstein, whose studio, Miramax, would come to define quality American cinema over much of the next decade and, perhaps, help to destroy it too (read Indiewire's excellent piece on sex, lies for more on its legacy).
Basically, it is good news that Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel have performed so strongly: excellent films in that "indie-literate" middle ground that many in the industry have been worrying had been neglected in the general rush to big-budget, big-box-office superhero pictures.
So, that was the year that was: storm, death, war, pestilence and some excellent baking.
If you want a herby hit, but don't have fresh herbs to hand, then shop-bought pesto makes an excellent dressing base.
Tucked away under ancient arches just by the bustling San Bartolomeo square, the Rosticceria is basically an old-fashioned self-service cafeteria, dishing up excellent and inexpensive comfort food - a "primo" for €6, followed by roast chicken, or "baccala mantecato", the traditional creamy salt cod.
Also, as this excellent Atlantic piece points out, there's a slightly uneasy "white saviour" theme throughout, best exemplified by a genuinely ghastly scene where the family tell the slaves that they're letting them go, everybody starts hugging and, quick as a flash, one of the freed women starts singing Amazing Grace.
He added that, overall, GCap's results gave been "excellent" and "give us much confidence for the future".
Unfortunately there were one or two results that weren't good, but it was an excellent experience for me and it helped me a lot.
