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...ites and Kurds - that if allowed to live and remain in Iraq, Saddam would someday escape and return to power - could be allayed by putting Saddam in international custody and consigning him to life imprisonment in the Hague. Like Slobodan Milosevic before him, he would be left to die there a defeated, forgotten...
...have been monitoring since the 1960s. For decades, membership of the group remained relatively stable, at about 1,200 adults and cubs. Between 1987 and 1994, however - precisely the years in which the rise in global temperatures have become the most evident - the number plummeted to 935, or a die-off of 22%. And that is only one of the five overall polar bear populations listed as declining by the multinational World Conservation Union...
...that dessert yesterday. The man who had feigned heart attacks countless times on stage died of congestive heart failure, with no resurrection in sight. But the lurid showmanship he brought to pop culture will never die. His last words, apparently, were ?I?m going away tonight.? Considering his impact, they might have been ?I feel good...
...most dangerous moment in popular movie-making occurs when honest sentiment shades over into dishonest sentimentality. It is, for example, dismaying to see terminally ill patients in movies remaining perky and life-affirming right up until the moment they die. And worse,showing no physical or emotionally ill effects - no pallor, emaciation or, for that matter, anger or fear - as they approach life...
...plus soldiers who defended the island against the ferocious American assault were ordered to die rather than surrender, and most did. It's a tragic epic that director Clint Eastwood personifies by focusing mainly on two stories: the dutiful, civilized general (Ken Watanabe) and a common soldier (Kazunari Ninomiya) who is clumsily, almost comically, determined to live. The dialogue is in Japanese, but this account of war madness --intense and compassionate--carries a universal and heart-breaking message...