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Finally, there's the foot. "What's important here is the arch," Lovejoy says. "It's a really important shock absorber. It's like wearing a good pair of running shoes." In order to create that arch, the chimp's opposable great toe became aligned with the others, and the toe's muscles and ligaments, which had been used for grasping and climbing, were repositioned under the foot. "The shape of the big toe is indicative of this. You can see it in Lucy's species," Lovejoy says, but not in the bone Haile-Selassie found, because it's from...
...Milosevic appointees, and had voted to annul last year's election result precipitating the insurrection that drove him from office - to challenge the validity of last weekend's government decree facilitating the strongman's extradition. But when the Federal court said no, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic - Kostunica's arch-rival and an enthusiastic advocate of a Hague trial for Milosevic - convened an emergency cabinet meeting. Less than five hours later, the man who had presided over a series of bloody tribal wars and his country's demise into an impoverished kleptocracy, was simply gone, unlikely ever to return...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in "Till Death Us Do Part," the model for "Family." The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...Abraham, James Merrill, Gray Witcher, James Bullock, Ziggy Whitman, and David Barry combined to win 18 of 20 games from their counterparts in Orange and Black to launch the team into the championship round against arch-rival Trinity...
...Damascus-style, on the way to a movie shoot, he thought to himself, ‘Son of a bitch, he is right.’” After being called “a political hypocrite and a moral coward” by one of his arch rivals in 1958, Goldwater shoots back, “schoolyard-style,” that his opponent should “look into the mirror and see who is the coward.” And as adoring crowds chant, “We Want Barry! We Want Barry...