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...dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman—on her side. He plays a rough-and-tumble Australian cattle drover who works for no man but himself and shirks responsibility. Jackman’s drover is such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with...
...Rinzler says. “We can be very good about promoting people’s passion and interest in food on very small, pocket, individual scales. But for an issue as all-encompassing as food literacy, I don’t think any student organization has the means to really make any meaningful impact.” The Culinary Society president sees the University’s involvement in the issue as the only hope for tangible change. In addition to renovated house kitchens, he believes there’s a need for a formalized food studies program...
...York City, where he produced dance music with a singularity deserving of his improbable biography. This proto-disco he has come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp, and a fundamental belief in people’s ability to appreciate complexity and duality. I mean, what more could a bunch of Black, Latino, and gay DJs hope for but that—a normalization of what was normal for them. It is this optimism—and the belief that the brightest future would see a blurring of the dividing line between intricacy and accessibility?...
...another Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, told the New York Times this week that he was open to discussing CIA techniques not included in the Army manual, as long as they were "legal, humane and noncoercive." "Just because the Army Field Manual is the best available manual, doesn't mean we can't do better," explained Jennifer Hoelzer, a spokesman for Wyden...
...addition, the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the disappearance of a major manufacturer - not to mention the blow that would be dealt to U.S. consumer confidence by the bankruptcy of an iconic brand - would mean even fewer cars sold. That would take another bite out of consumer finance receivables, the biggest asset on carmakers' books. So even though Japan would almost automatically gain market share if a U.S. carmaker went under, any gains would be outweighed by the negative impacts. "In this environment, gaining market share is not a good strategy," says Yoshida...