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...Here's a movie trivia game I wish I didn't have to play. Is there any major director who has made six consecutive films, each one markedly inferior to the one before? A case can be made that the answer is M. Night Shyamalan. (I'm ignoring Shyamalan's first two features, the cross-cultural Praying With Anger and the juvenile drama Wide Awake, because they were clearly apprentice work and, frankly, they don't fit into my argument...
...banned all weapons and private militias and is instituting an islandwide ID-card system." Coultrup says four-fifths of Basilan Island, another hub of Islamist agitation, is also much safer. "The secret to counterinsurgency is if the people can answer yes to two questions,'' says U.S. Special Forces Major Eric Walker: "One, do people believe the government is going to win? Two, if they turn over information to us, are they and their family going to survive?" The goal, Walker says, is "for them to answer yes to those...
...Slyngstad's team of 188, which includes 11 people focused solely on corporate governance issues, consciously leverages the fund's rights as a major shareholder. Last year, the fund contacted several companies in its portfolio with operations in India's agricultural sector, urging better controls on child labor. Similarly, talks are ongoing with firms in Brazil's mining and steel industries. The fund has also sent to the boards of about 30 firms a document it published with the help of UNICEF and Save the Children, setting out its expectations regarding children's rights...
...firms in a sector like Brazilian mining, in which exploitation of child labor persists. Nor will the environmentally unfriendly origins of the fund's cash prevent it from pressing for better ecological standards. Last year, for instance, the fund voted in favor of a shareholder push for U.S. oil major ExxonMobil to adopt emission-reduction goals. Hardly the actions of a rapacious villain...
...city's North Side Saturday afternoon, the sky turned the color of charcoal and the wind quickened. One man burst through a door announcing that a tornado had been reported nearby. "Whatever," another man said dismissively, holding a Corona, before adding, "We can't get tornadoes here." Not so. Major cities with skyscrapers aren't less vulnerable to tornadoes than rural, flat areas. Consider the tornadoes that swept through downtown Atlanta and parts of New Orleans earlier this year, and the series of deadly tornadoes that battered Salt Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They...