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...owner of the Snacks convenience store, where Paula has worked as a bookkeeper since 1985. She is not alone in her distress. Any sense of righteous satisfaction that a brutal killer might be off the streets came with questions about how Rader--a former scout leader, a pillar of his church, a devoted husband and dad--allegedly could be so skillful at leading a double life...
...Such deals are the heart of the "cap and trade" system for greenhouse-gas emissions that forms a pillar of the Kyoto accord on climate change, which goes into effect this week. Under the scheme, the total emissions of developed nations are limited, or "capped" at a fixed level, and each nation assigns a number of CO2 allowances to its major carbon-emitting sectors; companies that have unused allowances (as a result, for example, of antipollution improvements) may sell their excess allowances to companies that need them. Theoretically, the wisdom of the marketplace will lower the cost of reducing harmful...
...Francis Xavier was first and foremost a missionary. His primary goal was to introduce the doctrine and spread the seed of Christianity. In this aspect, he was a roaring success. He was one of the first seven members of the Jesuits, a religious order now recognized as a pillar of the Catholic Church. He never conquered states as an adventurer nor discovered new wonders as an explorer because he was never either. Mainland China, his final objective, eluded him because of the sudden illness that took his life, putting an untimely end to his quest to spread the faith...
...behind the scenes. In his first term, George W. Bush was willing to give Putin a free hand in what Russia calls the near abroad, the states that spun off from the broken Soviet Union. At the same time, Bush has made encouraging democracy around the world a central pillar of his presidency. In Ukraine those two policies clash mightily. Washington spent much of Ukraine's bitterly fought presidential campaign studiously avoiding confrontation with Putin and stuck to that line in the early days after the vote. But at midweek, Secretary of State Colin Powell made clear Washington's support...
Bardem and Rueda are the highlights of a uniformly strong cast. Limited to using only his face, Bardem manages to communicate a wide spectrum of human emotion with virtually zero self-conciousness. From her very first scene, Rueda stands like pillar holding up an enormous weight that threatens to crush her, and this notion informs even her slightest word and gesture. They both bring their characters to life fantastically, giving the audience reason to feel for them and to follow their story...