Word: lawlessness
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...stone since his History Boys stint). Now Nottingham is grooming the snidely Kendall (Guy Pearce) as his heir, while employing Skeeter in the lowly capacity of light-bulb changer. At the hotel his ally is do-nothing Mickey (Russell Brand); his other adversary is the officious Aspen (Lucy Lawless of Xena renown); and the potential prize and troublemaker is Nottingham's sexy daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer). When Skeeter's sister (Courteney Cox) goes out of town, she entrusts him with her two children (Jonathan Morgan Heit and Laura Ann Kesling). Actually, she doesn't trust...
...warrant, he says, has nothing to do with the fact that he is friends with the militia commander. Seeking justice from government officials, says Samimi, "is like going to the wolves for help, when the wolves have stolen your sheep." That is what it is like in Afghanistan, where lawless warlords are now the law. (See pictures here of the perils of motherhood in Afghanistan...
...executives are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. Other newly-elected leaders include: Aditi Balakrishna ’10 and Christian B. Flow ’10, associate managing editors Aparicio J. Davis ’10 and Thomas J. Lawless ’10, associate business managers Joshua J. Kearney ’10 and Beryl C. D. Lipton ’10, arts chairs Sarah B. Joselow ’10 and Alee L. Lockman ’10, design chairs Daniel E. Herz-Roiphe...
Aparicio J. Davis '10 and Thomas J. Lawless '10, associate business managers...
...pirates, largely from lawless coastal Somali towns, have basically turned the heavily plied route through the Gulf of Aden and into the Indian Ocean into a toll road. But as the pirates are becoming more brazen, the international community's patience is running out. "Right now, it's just cheaper to pay the ransom," says Zinni, who led the pullout of U.N. troops from Somalia in 1995. "But just wait until a cruise ship gets taken down and there's some sort of miscalculation and a bunch of people get killed...