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...only way he knows: he starts hunting the hunters. With the grace of a master filmmaker, Lu seamlessly folds the story of Ga Yu (Zhang Lei), a wet-behind-the-ears reporter for a Beijing newspaper, into Ritai’s crusade against the poachers, deftly obscuring frontier journalism with frontier revenge. The subtitles that accompany the Mandarin and Tibetan dialogue don’t hamper such dramatic complexity, primarily thanks to Lu’s impeccable direction and the honed precision of every actor’s performance. As he gains acceptance among Ritai’s band...
...Frontier After the fall of the Taliban, al-Zarqawi slips out through Iran to northern Iraq, linking up with local terrorism groups. He achieves global notoriety when Colin Powell names him in his February 2003 U.N. speech laying out the U.S.?s case for invading Iraq...
With three quarters of the British civilians on active service stationed in the provinces of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, much of the British experience concerns the frontier, where their Haileybury training did not come in handy. As Gilmour notes, “a raja and his court of noblemen were likely to be less impressed by a taciturn scholar from Oxford than by an ebullient officer who was, like them, a sportsman...
...mentality which is said to “tacitly condone sexual violence.” Take Back the Night has rebounded admirably from its bizarre incarnation of the previous decade, where empowering women in the face of rape became a convoluted, extreme, and profligate notion.Now it beholds the final frontier, with a collegiate culture so oversexed that it bursts unbecomingly out of its seams more often than before. TBTN might tacitly embrace this “anything goes” sexual culture at odds with respect for women and their bodies. Or it might reorient its goal and, if they...
...fishapod was among the pioneering organisms to take advantage of an ecological frontier--the marshy floodplains of large rivers--that opened between 410 million and 356 million years ago during the Devonian period, known as the Age of Fishes. Early in the Devonian, the continents were mostly masses of bare rock with just a fringe of plants "no taller than your ankle," as Daeschler puts it, growing along the wet margins of rivers and streams. By the late Devonian, however, thick vegetation had taken hold in marshes, fens and floodplains, and mosses, ferns and trees had coalesced into the world...