Word: australian
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...Charlie Chaplin and seven years after his last of several well-publicized trips to either rehab or jail, Downey, 43, is finally claiming the career he was always meant to have, one befitting a fiercely talented, eccentric and magnetic leading man. Later this summer, Downey will appear as an Australian Method actor who is overly committed to playing a black soldier in Ben Stiller's raucous satire of filmmaking and war movies, Tropic Thunder. And in the fall comes another plum role, as a journalist who discovers a schizophrenic Juilliard violinist (Jamie Foxx) living on the streets of Los Angeles...
...routinely stocking up in bookstores on Washington's Dupont Circle. (Though a man of the left, Brown has broad tastes: a bathroom in his house contains a well-thumbed copy of Moral Judgment, by James Q. Wilson, a favorite of U.S. conservatives.) In private, he can be delightful company. Australian novelist Kathy Lette says "there's a loving, frivolous side of him," and describes a surprise party Brown organized for his wife Sarah that started with Lette and other female friends including J.K. Rowling hiding, giggling, behind Downing Street's formal furnishings. But as a scion of his nation...
...51st state of the United States of America.' BOB BROWN, leader of the Australian Greens party, criticizing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a playful salute he gave President Bush at a NATO summit. Critics say the gesture suggested subservience to Washington...
...have three parts: electrons, neutrons, and protons. I was floored. Three different parts! All ending in “ons!” The recent Harpers’ Findings testifies to the knowledge that science can still provide: natural disasters have quadrupled in the past two decades, thousands of Australian crocodiles suffer from Chlamydia, obesity increases the risk of gingivitis, and sex makes people happier than money...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s New Labour Party is back in the immigration game. Last February, the UK government introduced a new, Australian-style points system for non-EU immigrants, requiring English language proficiency as well as education and earnings minimums for the right to stay. With a growing population of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Britons who are undereducated, unemployed, and low earners, the British government’s stance reflects a politically brave and long overdue acknowledgement that its postwar immigration policy was problematic. It also reflects the acknowledgment that past efforts to help groups who immigrated...