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...most iconic lines in American film history. Jumping between blockbusters like Airplane, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 and There Will Be Blood, "100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds" may inspire you to update that stale Netflix queues. It can also double as a rapid-fire trivia game, offering viewers two seconds of material or less to name the movie in which the one-liner appears...
...tribe and a group widely resented for its dominance of government and business since independence in 1963. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, a Luo from western Kenya, accused the Kikuyus of trying to keep power for themselves. His supporters, mainly Luo and Kalenjin from around Eldoret, set the country on fire. The killing ended in March last year when former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan brokered a national-unity government, with Kibaki as President and Odinga as Prime Minister. (See pictures of the post-election violence in Kenya...
...looking for a cheap but charming steak place in the ancient Tuscan town of Montepulciano last month. Following a local lead, he ducked into an osteria he'd never noticed before: a vaulted medieval cellar jammed with locals sitting at a common table. A man worked an open fire at the back of the room. He carved chops from a huge side of beef lying on a gurney, presented them in butcher paper to each customer for inspection and then fired them one by one, seven minutes on each side. "There was no asking how you like it done," Steves...
...exam. More recently, she forbade the Environmental Protection Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis in antipollution enforcement (her ruling was later overturned). But the real fight over her confirmation will focus on her role in a case about tests for promotion within the New Haven, Conn., fire department. Although the tests were designed to be race-neutral, the pass rate for blacks was half that for whites. So New Haven threw out the test results. Several white firefighters who scored high enough for promotion sued the city. One of the plaintiffs was dyslexic and had hired tutors to help...
...near-30-year conflict with Israel. In 2006, a second conflict exploded between Hizballah and Israel; the resulting battle killed more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians, only adding to Lebanese discontent with Israel and swelling the ranks of Hizballah supporters. Though the conflict ended in a UN-brokered cease-fire a month later, Hizballah once again claimed victory, rallying public support behind their cause...