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  • NU's other two scholarship quarterbacks — Trevor Siemian and Kain Colter — are incoming freshmen.

    Around the BigTen Conference 2010

  • NU's other two scholarship quarterbacks -- Trevor Siemian and Kain Colter -- are incoming freshmen.

    Northwestern - Team Notes 2010

  • Colter is famous for her magnificent buildings at the Grand Canyon - but she considered La Posada her masterpiece.

    Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

  • Again I called Colter into our council, and again I found him prompt to sympathize, and ready to act; quite delighted indeed, as he said, to help in counter-working these two Yankee scoundrels, who had no doubt conspired together to destroy Mr Curtis's will, and to divide the estate between them; seeking to reduce Cassy and Eliza, and probably Montgomery too, to slavery; not so much for the sake of what they would sell for, -- he didn't suppose that ever

    The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive 1852

  • What Colter can't do is save anyone on that train, including Christina—or the man whose body he inhabits, each of the several times he goes back into that irrevocable past.

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

  • But Mr. Gyllenhaal makes Colter convincing in other, smaller ways as well: How would anyone act, were he or she to awaken, as Colter does, in a totally unfamiliar place, among people who recognize him but whom he doesn't know?

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

  • In the entertaining "Source Code" directed by Duncan Jones, from an original and architecturally ambitious screenplay by Ben Ripley, Colter doesn't know—and neither do we—that he's part of a highly classified military research project and has been sent into the immediate past to find out who bombed that train.

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

  • The "source code"—a kind of shorthand for computer shorthand—is given a breezy but satisfying enough explanation by its inventor Jeffrey Wright, but what it does, basically, is provide Colter with an eight-minute window, in a parallel reality, to find the bomber and prevent what is expected to be a subsequent terrorist attack on Chicago itself.

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

  • Colter Stevens Jake Gyllenhaal awakens on a commuter train heading to Chicago, and doesn't know where he is.

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

  • Mr. Gyllenhaal is superb, Ms. Monaghan is adorable; Vera Farmiga, as Colter's "handler" back at the base, is her usual expert self.

    'Insidious': Scary Eyeful of the Unknown John Anderson 2011

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