Word: darwins
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...such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with a young, half-Aboriginal, half-white boy named Nullah (Brandon Walters), Lady Ashley puts together a ragtag team to drive a thousand cattle from her ranch to the city of Darwin to outmaneuver King Carney.Sound like fun? Well, there’s even more to this nearly three-hour-long movie. Obviously Drover and Lady Ashley fall in love and then get torn apart, only to end up together again, but there’s also an overarching plot involving efforts...
Ramsey County District Court Judge Dale B. Lindman ruled that the voter information was public data and not private as Ramsey's attorneys had argued. By Wednesday evening the county had turned over the information to the Franken campaign. Ramsey County assistant attorney Darwin Lookingbill confirmed that the county will not appeal the ruling...
...Darwin were evaluating fashion, he would certainly argue that anyone stupid enough to wear shutter shades, a “trendy” version of beer goggles, deserves to be naturally selected to be hit by a bus—one that he couldn’t even see coming...
...dark underground caverns of a prestigious New York newspaper are the right setting for the murder at the outset of Black and White and Dead All Over (Knopf; 368 pages) by John Darnton, the author of biology-fiction thrillers Neanderthal and The Darwin Conspiracy. A 30-year veteran of the New York Times, Darnton delivers a knowing, insider's portrait of the newspaper with great sympathy and humor, and successfully captures the intense human drama and daunting business imperatives in the world of newspapering. A sense of impending doom hovers over the enterprise, a sense that its greatness is slipping...
...When German-born Smith first visited the Tiwi's home islands of Bathurst and Melville, north of Darwin, most people were wary of outsiders and suspicious of the camera. But the photos she took on that brief stay in 1987 changed the Tiwi elders' minds. They agreed to let her make a book about the people who'd "captured my heart," and gave her the run of the islands...