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Scientists are pretty sure by now that an asteroid or comet ended the 135 million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...
...central task of her reign has always been managing the monarchy's image, from which all legitimacy flows. In the 1950s, editors were decorous, convinced that negative news or gossip would outrage readers. But the culture of deference was displaced by a raucous war for circulation and TV viewers, where skirmishes were fought with tittle-tattle about the Windsors. "The main change of the last 50 years is that the monarchy has become absorbed into, embroiled with, the culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they...
...Reign of Fire (July 12): In the not too distant future dragons emerge from London and begin to set fire to the world, establishing their dominance over humans. Mankind’s only hope is a group of dragon slayers led by Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. This sounds like a tired old formula that has been done a thousand times and that’s probably what this film will be. On the upside, if the apocalypse does strike, London is a fitting place for it to begin...
...terribly ironic that Dimengo, in calling for some impossible ideal of “international justice,” desires that Bagosora and Milosevic “not be given free reign [sic] in their trials” to offer their preferred legal defense. If she doesn’t feel that justice and impartiality have a place in these courts, then what would be the point of creating a permanent...
...without a genuine and realistic alternative to the ICC and the current special war crimes tribunals, we cannot allow the international legal system to fumble. For now, that means that Bagosora and Milosovic must not be given free reign in their trials. They destroyed their homelands; we cannot allow them to destroy the justice that the international legal system can bring...