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...course of the film. Yet Gone Baby Gone has a lightness and humor to it. At one point, Ed Harris' police detective dismissively suggests that the young-looking Kenzie should forget the case and get back to his Harry Potter book. In another scene, a drug lord points a gun at Kenzie and warns that if he sees him again, he might "be discourteous...
...oratory skills draws comparisons to Blair. These comparisons once sounded flattering but later, as Blair lost popularity, mutated into taunts; even some members of his own party dismissed Cameron as a bantamweight Blair who would be hopelessly outclassed by the heavyweight Brown. Just before the Tory conference kicked off, Lord Tebbitt, a Cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's government, remarked, dismissively, that Cameron had "no experience of the world...
...jury at the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, the next six months could be the longest - and most confusing - half-year of their lives. As the coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker wrapped up his opening statement on Wednesday, the men and women tasked with deciding, once and for all, how the couple died finally have a full picture of the road ahead. And it's not going to be smooth...
Setting the tone, Lord Justice Scott Baker, the coroner leading the inquests, began by reading his opening statement to the jury and drumming home the point that "this is not a trial." The six women and five men (only 11 jurors are required for an inquest) listened as Baker explained "in a nutshell" what evidence they would be hearing over the next six months and what they were expected to do with it all. Officially, an inquest tries to answer four key questions: who died, when, where and how? It is required by law whenever anyone dies of anything other...
Sinking his teeth into a burger after a five-mile run, Robert K. Lord ’09 said it tasted like “one of the best [he’d] ever had,” while Ben Kirkup ’97, a non-resident tutor, praised his beer-battered shrimp as “hot” and “crispy.” —Roger R. Lee contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...