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Police declined to give out any details about the exact cause of death...
...Nobody's Fool" is successful because it is potent without relying on typical film conventions. There are no guns. Well, okay, two to be exact. There are no naked women. Okay, maybe for a split second. But, the point is that no one's life is on the line. Compared to many films where the world is sure to end, the stakes in "Nobody's Fool" are small. The worst that could happen is for Sully to go on relinquishing responsibility. What is the best that could happen? Probably that Sully starts to value the things he's taken...
...really cheer for Chechen secession? A few voices call for letting regions historically forced into the Russian Federation go free, like the other pieces of the Soviet Empire. But the U.S. and West European governments acknowledged without question Russia's right to hold the country together. Analogies are never exact, but the rough equivalent of siding with the Chechens would be defending the right of heavily Mexican areas of South Texas or the Basque region of northern Spain to declare themselves independent nations...
...that Cavalli-Sforza's mammoth study is finally complete, it's time to start a fresh survey. Reason: new analytical techniques that in recent years have revolutionized the field of genetics. Instead of using indirect markers like blood groups, researchers can now determine the exact chemical sequences of long strands of DNA itself. Cavalli-Sforza and his colleagues believe this technology can be used to resolve questions they were ill-equipped to answer, such as the origins of the Negrito tribes in the Indian Ocean, Malayan peninsula and the Philippines. Anthropologists suspect that they are descendants of a wandering people...
...them, it pointed to abstraction. But in Delacroix's case it was supported by an intimate sense of detail. Nowhere does Delacroix's curiosity about what he saw reveal itself more fully than in the Moroccan drawings. He was determined to get everything right, to bring back exact memory in an age before photography: the weave of a coarse djellaba conveyed in thin licks of wash; the violent white light on a wall; a chaotic still life of saddles, blankets and flintlocks piled in the corner of a guardhouse behind a pair of sleeping soldiers, whose robes give them...