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...Pacino spumed and ranted in the 1979 film ...And Justice for All and Forsythe, as a judge, manfully gaveled him down. When Bill Murray, as the rapacious network executive in the 1989 Scrooged, needed a talking to, Forsythe, even in corpse makeup, had the authority to do it. You might say he was upstaged by Joan Collins' brunette treachery in Dynasty, and by Farrah Fawcett's blond mop in Charlie's Angels. But Forsythe was like an easy chair one takes for granted until it's put in the attic. In three words, he wore well. (See the best movies...
...course, grappling with something as vastly complex as climate science involves plenty of uncertainties: What threshold represents a tipping point, after which changes accelerate? What are the chances of some unforeseen catastrophic event? What measures might come into play that limit CO2 emissions and thus mitigate climate change? And how do you precisely gauge the economic impact - particularly when dealing with the future...
Books on training for a marathon always encourage people to tell everyone they know about their intention to run 26.2 miles in one grueling stretch. Facebook just might be the perfect forum for broadcasting such a goal and making the goal setter stick to it. Cara Sronce, a 24-year-old law student in Carbondale, Ill., says that soon after she signed up for her first marathon, the 2010 Chicago race, she posted a status update about getting ready for the October event. "I figure I can't stop now, unless I get some serious injury or something," she says...
...Obama Administration is hard at work courting Russian and Chinese support for toughening up the U.N. sanctions regime against Iran. But winning the cooperation of Dubai might be equally important in the effort to squeeze Tehran. The Emirate may have no vote on the Security Council, but Iran's tiny neighbor is widely regarded as the easiest route for smuggling illicit goods into the Islamic Republic...
While Iranian banks in Dubai might extend credit to Iranians living there, Masoumzadeh says that credit is often rejected by clients. "Iranian bank letters of credit are not accepted by suppliers in Europe and the Far East." However, he says, much of the trade can now go directly from Asian suppliers to Iran's Bandar Abbas port, without passing through Dubai at all. Iran's government-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, or IRISL, has a fleet of vessels that go directly to Iran's ports from cities around China and Korea, as well as the Netherlands, Germany...