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Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."
Judge Scott's Canutian position [EPISTOLAE XVII, 3] reminds me of William Safire several years ago cravenly caving in to some of his readers who lambasted him for having written, “Who are you rooting for?”
When I wrote Safire to ask whether he could imagine Hemingway, Faulkner, and O'Hara sitting in the grandstand at Yankee Stadium, hot dogs (with mustard) in hand, asking each other, “Whom are you rooting for?”
Empirical studies on gene trees based on 1750 Pfam alignments show that about 60% of trees rooted in such a way have their root in the same position that direct midpoint rooting [ 27 ] would place it.
The three standard lines of analysis were: 1) The first lady would try to tug her husband back to the perilous left; 2) The president and his aides don't want her to take a public role, because she'll become a lightning rod; and 3) Republicans are secretly rooting for her to take a public role, for both the above reasons.