Word: fronting
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...Such discrepancies, subconsciously or not, affect the way we value life. A fair chunk of Bangladesh slides underwater, killing thousands, and it barely merits a mention in the global media. A dozen people die in a California wildfire, and it's front-page news...
...risk that the Horn of Africa will become a new center of global terrorism, it's not quite there. Much is going to depend on personnel. If the new President of the E.U. is a person of international stature (as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the front-runner for the post, plainly is), able to project Europe's view while convincing the smaller members of the union that their voices count, then Europe is going to be a bigger player internationally. In time, this could be to the enormous advantage of the U.S., which has neither the will...
...minutes into the first overtime, freshman forward Caroline Albanese took the ball down the sideline and played it off her defender to earn her team a corner kick from the left side of the field. Sophomore midfielder Melanie Baskind took the kick for the Crimson, placing it just in front of the goal for Sheeleigh, who knocked the ball to the ground before hammering it home...
Harvard was not without its own scoring opportunities in regulation. Just over two minutes after the Brown header deflected off the post in the second period, Baskind led a Crimson counter-attack and found senior forward Christina Hagner just feet in front of the net. Hagner, who led Harvard in scoring last season, booted the ball at Bears keeper Steffi Yellin, but the ball was knocked away...
...Abiding Citizen had no pedigree at all. Based on an original screenplay, it stars Gerard Butler as a decent fellow who, when his wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, is transformed into an evil genius, terrorizing assistant D.A. Jamie Foxx and the rest of Philadelphia with murders of a scheming, Saw-like sadism. Saddled with a scathing 16% score from the "top critics" monitored on Rotten Tomatoes (Wild Things nabbed a gentleman's 68%), Citizen won audiences on star quality and the movie marketplace's lack of other adult-themed melodrama - read: crap for grownups. Younger viewers...