Word: actioners
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...teen slasher film cadged $17.4 million and will finish the frame in third place, behind the Nazi-scalping-and strangling Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic dropped a less-than-expected 47% from last weekend to pull in about $20 million. In 10 days, the polylingual action drama has amassed $73.8 million in the North American market and another $60 million abroad - which, in any language, means boffo. The South African sci-fi thriller District 9 was next with a $10.7 million weekend and a $90.8 million three-week total. For the first time in, well, quite...
...differentiated responsibilities" on cutting carbon. Decoded, that means rich nations have to take the lead on reducing emissions - as seems fair, since most of the carbon in the atmosphere has been put there over the past 200 years by the developed world - but poor nations need to take some action as well. Fine, but the emergence of China, already the world's biggest carbon emitter, and to a lesser extent India, has complicated that equation. If China doesn't constrain its emissions, there's no hope of controlling global warming. Yet while China is getting richer all the time...
...much of the world, strikes are as French as wine, cheese or extramarital affairs. But France's dirty little secret is that industrial action has long helped perpetuate the status quo rather than overturn it. Now the art of protest is undergoing a revolution (another French tradition) as a small group of social activists uses creativity, humor and media savvy to draw the kind of attention it once took millions of marchers to muster. And here's the really radical thing: France's youthful demonstrators aren't just winning support for their various causes - they're challenging the very social...
...essay is a lesson in cognitive dissonance. “He quickly comes to the defense of affirmative action, which is based on group preferences,” said Ward Connerly, former regent of the University of California. “Why then does he discount this classification when talking about Asians...
...Undergraduate Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10, who is on the student life working group, said that a joint meeting for the two College working groups in May focused on broad principles for the committees’ future meetings rather than concrete action plans...