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Midway through Proof of Life, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), an elite hostage negotiator, gets on the radio and begins the long, exhaustive game of cat and mouse that will decide the fate of Peter Bowman (David Morse), an American engineer in the hands of South American radicals. The voice on the other end demands an exorbitant sum of money. Thorne calmly refuses, offering a much lower amount, and the dialogue abrutply ends with the chilling threat that Bowman is as good as dead. As the surrounding family members freak out, Thorne brushes them off, saying "You'll get used...
...bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...
While the Supreme Court decision revoked one trademark, the fate of the four other trademarks related to the "Harvard Reader" has yet to be determined. Those four trademarks, all belonging to Korean service class 52, have been revoked by the KIPO, but Calixto said Itempool may still appeal the revocation...
...Senator Pryor took that proposal and decided that he knew what was best for students instead of letting them decide their own fate," she said...
...macabre twist of fate, many of those killed in the insurgency following the election were supporters of excluded candidates calling for free and fair elections. Gbagbo's supporters, mainly from southern ethnic groups, turned on their Muslim and northern rivals in politically and ethnically motivated violence. While Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, the U.S. State Department and the Organization of African Unity called for new and free elections, the French hurriedly supported Gbagbo as president. This sealed Gbagbo's resolve to proclaim himself as president though he was far from having a national mandate...