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...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...ended. This is especially so given the past and current record of behavior of these contractors, the fact that they are not legally accountable for their actions, and that they are putting their own lives and those of others at risk for a price rather than as a service. Robert G. King ’09-’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Winthrop House...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: Blacklist Blackwater | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...undergird its case for extended sovereignty in the Arctic. (In 2002 a U.N. commission shelved Russia's claim to more of the Arctic for lack of detailed technical evidence.) Nor, despite this summer's bravado, is it clear that Russia has real plans to follow up the Mir expedition. Robert Nigmatulin, director of the Institute of Ocean Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, says establishing a claim to the continental shelf before 2009 - as Russia must do under the terms of the unclos - would require drilling deep-water seabed samples, technology that he says Russia does not possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...Robert Yancey, a program director at a New York City drug clinic called Turning Point, blames the dangerously lax attitude toward cocaine in the 1970s for fueling the drug's popularity - and fostering the crack epidemic of the 1980s. One law enforcement official in Philadelphia says a contemporary analogy is the growing abuse of prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming a Statistic | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...We’ve set up a process that is appropriate for a large development project with many facets and parts, when it’s often not possible to determine the environmental impact at the beginning,” said Robert Keough, spokesman for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Adopts CO2 Caps | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

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