Word: proofing
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...lifted the quality of nearly every film he's been in, ever since Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for The Quick and the Dead in 1994. As a compromised cop in L.A. Confidential, a tobacco executive in The Insider, a wily negotiator with South American kidnappers in Proof of Lifeand so many more, Crowe has been able to erase his thuggish public persona the moment he steps on-screen and persuade the viewer that he is the complex character he happens to be playing...
...entirely possible that we'll never find any proof that life exists anywhere else in our limited little solar system. But courtesy of our own Antarctic, we now have one more piece of proof that it could...
Sarkozy also suggested that Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's multiple elections wins is proof of his greatness. "What is important in democracy is to be re-elected," Libération cited Sarkozy as saying, a phrase unlikely to join "fraternité, égalité et liberté" as a description of French democratic ideals...
...Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi. If a defendant claims to be under 18, she says, the judge is required to order medical tests or investigate school records or other documents that might establish age. (Pakistani officials have acknowledged that Qasab is a Pakistani, but have given no proof of age. It's common in South Asia for births to go unrecorded.) The defense attorney could have also pressed further but instead accepted the decision...
...American neighbors like Peru and Colombia, they are not in Bolivia. Opposition leader and Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas suggested Thursday's events might be a government stunt orchestrated by Morales, who has declared assassination plots against him on several occasions during his presidency but had yet to offer proof. "Anyone can see that this is a crude staging, a show," Costas said in a press conference, adding it could also be the government's way of deflecting attention away from a bomb that exploded outside the Santa Cruz house of a Roman Catholic Bishop, Julio Terrazas...