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...02pm, just minutes before the news broke of the tragic shooting of Justin Cosby, Dean Evelynn Hammonds sent out a reasonably important email...
...during four years of negotiations that followed, neither side could agree to a political compromise on autonomy for Tamil-majority areas. Confrontations between the Tigers and the government increased, and the assassinations resumed. The LTTE itself began to splinter, and one of Prabhakaran's top lieutenants, known as Karuna, broke away. With Karuna's help, the eastern provinces came under control of the government...
...government's reaction then was to fine companies who broke new anti-pollution laws and, in some cases, give them tax credits for being better environmental citizens. Tax credits do not have much use in a recession when many companies do not pay taxes because they are losing money or do not have the spare cash to modify existing production habits...
Tune in to watch a New York Knicks basketball game and you may see Spike Lee trash-talking opposing stars from his courtside seats. Next to filmmaking, basketball is one of the director's greatest loves, and with his focus increasingly shifting toward nonfiction features (When the Levees Broke, Passing Strange), it was only a matter of time before Lee got around to shooting some hoops. (See pictures of Star Trek's best villains...
Unfortunately, there's nothing the Avenger can do at this point for Carter. Catching criminals is, alas, not among our powers. But if the thief who broke into her car is reading, won't you at least return her favorite bathing suit...