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...course, the heist isn’t going to happen if Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington), the detective-cum-hostage negotiator on the case, has anything to say about it. Frazier is dealing with a psychotically-calm bank robber, but his personal life is a mess. He is embroiled in a fraud scandal at work and has a girlfriend who is pushing for marriage. So we have the cop-with-something-to-prove and the mysterious British villain (actually, Clive Owen might be playing American—his accent is a bit hard to pin down); toss in a shady power...
Other Apocrypha speculated marvelously on the "flight into Egypt." In one version, dragons along the Nile bend their knee to the baby, and palm trees bow to offer dates. Another features a robber who will turn out to be the "good thief" crucified with Jesus. The flight made Joseph an early favorite of the Egyptian Coptic Church, which mapped a detailed itinerary reaching as far north as Dimyana, near the Mediterranean, and south far past the pyramids down to Deir al-Muharraq. The Coptic History of Joseph the Carpenter provided one of the first descriptions of his death...
...think so. Times always change. The age of the robber barons was very much like today. We go through these eras, and this is another one, but in between, the system works. It worked quite well during...
...every bit as willing to point the finger. Insurance companies, they charge, are using deceptive tales of excessive damage awards to justify the exorbitant premiums that they charge the public. Says Browne Greene, president-elect of the California Trial Lawyers Association: "Their greed takes us back to the robber barons of the 19th century." Many consumer organizations add that insurers are seeking unjustified premium hikes to cover up their own bad management and poor judgment of risks...
...High Court judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to try him for the killing of Kenya Wildlife Service warden Simon Ole Sisina; in Nakuru. Cholmondeley told police he thought the warden, who was investigating allegations of illegal bush meat trading on his 400,000-hectare ranch, was an armed robber in an increasingly violent region. Cholmondeley's great-grandfather, Lord Delamere, was among the first whites to settle in the then-British colony in the early 20th century, and established a reputation for decadence chronicled in the 1982 book White Mischief, later made into a movie of the same name...