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...insanity of a secondary character that nearly stokes a race riot, Pride and Glory has waived all rights to a dispassionate verdict. It's glum and goofy enough make to We Own the Night, the requisite serioso cop drama from last year's festival circuit, seem a masterpiece by comparison...
...director in the first part of JCVD is bored and contemptuous.) Most of the film, though, is unsparing of the Van Damme legend. With the star, now 47, looking puffy and played out, and with so many references to his off-screen philandering and drug use, the movie bears comparison to Mickey Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, also at Toronto. Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins...
...bear market that has seen the S&P 500 index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties...
...numbers, Pachauri is absolutely right. In a 2006 report, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concluded that worldwide livestock farming generates 18% of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions - by comparison, all the world's cars, trains, planes and boats account for a combined 13% of greenhouse gas emissions. Much of livestock's contribution to global warming come from deforestation, as the growing demand for meat results in trees being cut down to make space for pasture or farmland to grow animal feed. Livestock takes up a lot of space - nearly one-third of the earth's entire landmass...
Despite the end score, the Wolfpack continued to press forward. NC State was responsible for 20 shots and nine corner kicks for the game. In comparison, the Crimson only managed seven shots and two corners...