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...next three years, John Darwin lived in their home, passing the time by reading and surfing the Web. When she hosted visitors, he would retreat to a small adjacent apartment that could be accessed through a passageway concealed behind a wardrobe in their bedroom. When he ventured outdoors, Darwin disguised himself by affecting a limp...
...movie: a long shot at Dunkirk that lasts almost five minutes. The camera weaves in and out of the carnage and confusion on the beach—as well as in and out of Robbie’s perspective—at the stirring moment of British retreat. The last few minutes, however, taint what had been a poignant film adaptation up to that point. The revelatory final scene is simply a diluted version of the novel. Ironically, it is the film’s devotion to the text that causes it to miss the text’s most...
...intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again. This time the purpose is to head off the possibility that the President may order air strikes on the Iranian nuclear installations." Soon, even Podhoretz was in retreat...
...contrast, the new high-speed Eurostar train ferries commuters from London to Paris at an average speed of 149 mph.These shortcomings aside, traveling by train, even in the United States, is simply a cut above other forms of transportation.While planes uncomfortably crowd people against one another, forcing them to retreat into themselves, trains allow for a certain sense of Olympian detachment combined with carefree interaction.So as my friends sit on the tarmac at Logan or O’Hare on the way home to winter break, I’ll be ensconced comfortably—and, most likely, grinning like...
USAGE Both could claim the doctrine as a defense. While Wilkerson might have been able to simply drive off, the 2005 Florida statute removed the "duty to retreat" mandate, establishing the right to stand one's ground. Less clear is whether the Texas law, which went into effect Sept. 1, applies to a neighbor's home. The state senator who wrote Texas' law recently said that it probably does...