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Dave Gibbons comes across like a pretty regular English bloke, apart from his manic verbal energy and his aesthetically advanced glasses. But he is, in fact, a genius - one of the major comic book artists of the 21st century, or the 20th, or really any other century you care to name. Along with writer Alan Moore, he is one half of the team that in 1986 created the seminal Watchmen, a graphic novel so painstakingly crafted and darkly radical that its publication changed the superhero genre forever. If you're wondering where The Dark Knight got its darkness, look...
...power-play score on senior Steve Rolecek’s assist after the Union goalie lost sight of the puck. Harvard’s lead would be short-lived, lasting only two minutes before an RPI power play led to the equalizer.The following two penalties taken 17 seconds apart were too much for the Crimson to withstand. Hoyle kept the game tied with several saves, but Lane Caffaro knocked in a wrist shot at 17:19 to give Union the 2-1 lead. The rest of the period was scoreless, thanks to Hoyle’s 20 saves...
...economic causes of the conflict need to be addressed. The minerals from the region are hugely profitable both mining conglomerates and armed groups alike - apart from their utility for end users in the developed world. Nkunda, for example, is widely believed to be profiting from the transit of minerals through areas he controls (he claims he is only policing the area to protect ethnic Tutsis). Global Witness, a London based NGO, sent researchers to the the provinces of North and South Kivu this summer and reported back that Hutu armed groups as well as members of the country's armed...
...they move through the story, leave the works themselves astride a prism of possibilities—comedy, drama, fantasy, and autobiography. “Synecdoche” flirts with all of these labels and deigns to dwell in their respective cultures from time to time, but ultimately stands apart as a movie about the deconstruction of a character by his environment. At its heart, the story is fundamentally one of displacement. Caden is haunted by the ghosts of his wife and child—the people for whom he has become something of a ghost as well?...
...year-old Adelson, for his part, pledged to personally ensure the "success" of the Singapore casino. "In light of recent turmoil in the global markets," he said in a statement released Nov. 7, "I felt the need to personally reaffirm our commitment to the success of Marina Bay Sands." Apart from announcing that executives from Las Vegas Sands had met with officials from the Singapore government over the last week, however, the statement did not specify what steps are being taken to bolster the finances of his company or its Marina Bay project...