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...blamed on dissident republicans opposed to power-sharing. And on Jan. 8, another policeman was wounded in a bombing. The Independent Monitoring Commission, a paramilitary-watchdog group, said in November that dissidents pose a greater security threat now than at any time in the past six years. Many fear a political collapse could play into their hands and lead to more attacks. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...
...landscape not even WALL-E could clean up. The desaturated color scheme makes the whole world look as if it were left outside to die, and it was. Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest. Or, in Eli's case, the purest. He's a good man with a Good Book - a rare extant copy of the Bible, whose possession he will defend with his life. (See the top 10 movies...
...wily, chatty Carnegie (Gary Oldman, having infectious fun with the villain role) and overrun by his gang. One of the few readers in a world of illiterates, Carnegie wants what Eli has, for he believes that the Bible's rhetoric can subdue men more successfully than fear and firearms can. "They'll do exactly what I tell 'em," he says, "if the words are from the Book." (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...
...largely unaltered for 40 years, despite other changes that have taken place in the economy: nationalization, socialization, privatization and pro-market reforms. Grémont says that such enduring élitism is difficult to challenge in normal economic times, which is the main reason some French executives continue to fear that the current global recession could morph into something more serious: a 1930s-style meltdown capable of shaking the entire economic structure to its foundations. Were that to happen, chain-reaction bankruptcies of companies could force the French state to step in and nationalize industries, dismantling the boardroom power structure...
With the freshman formal only a week away, some Yard residents may be suffering from a last-minute dateless panic. Well, ladies, fear not because it looks like Freeze Magazine overlooked someone in their list of candidates for Mr. Harvard Freshman 2013—and he is now accepting applications to be his date...