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...when police were tipped off to suspicious financial activity. This week, Tony Hutchinson, a spokesman for Cleveland police, issued a plea for assistance in piecing together John Darwin's whereabouts over the past five years. In the end, it was his wife who revealed the bizarre truth. Her burden of secrecy has been lifted, but in its place looms a towering wave of legal trouble...
...actual English girl (with an American mother), and a knockout. Her look is both wary and sleepy, as if she'd just been poked awake from a bad dream. There's an intelligent insolence about Richards, suggesting a pre-teen Tilda Swinton. The girl has the burden of carrying the first half of the movie virtually alone, and does so effortlessly - as if she knows she was born to be appreciated in gigantic closeup - but unself-consciously, without the preening assertiveness of so many child actors. Thanks to Richards, Lyra is the complex character she should be: both earthy...
...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...department fighting for their methodology’s supremacy. Although some students executed joint theses elegantly, many caused administrative headaches. With the advent of the secondary field program last spring, students have been given more choice in their ability to engage in interdisciplinary study at Harvard without the significant burden of writing a joint thesis. Of course, the experience of writing an interdisciplinary thesis is still an important one, and one that can still occur under the new system. For instance, if students wanted to write a thesis in economics and psychology, they could still incorporate elements from both under...
...Missile Defense Agency, said over breakfast earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic cost and financial burden ($4 billion through 2013) becomes increasingly dubious. For one thing, the Pentagon faces mounting bills of tens of billions of dollars to "reset" the U.S. military - replacing everything worn out in Afghanistan and Iraq - over the coming decade...