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...view of the bridal couple; it shows them running through a meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist?s funeral, is arrested and jailed. In prison...
...teachers might have had no idea of the true identity of the travelers who took advantage of the school's hospitality. (A teacher at the school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members of JI who don't even know the name of the emir [leader]. They don't even...
...recant their involvement with the regime and rejoin civil society. Such is the system that has allowed the multitude of ethnicities in South Africa—from Boers, the group that provided apartheid’s rigid backbone, to those whom they routinely victimized—to function again in one of Africa’s most effective democracies...
...raised in large numbers; in Dowling’s small facility, he can keep 30,000 fish at a time. The fish’s fast generation time also proves helpful in developmental studies; by the time a fish is just five days old, one can measure its visual function very effectively by using the optokinetic reflex—the same test used to test vision of human babies. Finally, Dowling notes, “They’re highly responsive visually—for my purposes, perfect...
...MBTA said there was concern over passengers’ ability to hear announcements over the subway public address systems, and to function in the case of an emergency, with performers nearby...