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Despots run amuck when the searchlight of responsibility ceases to shine. Without investigative journalism, injurious regimes can perpetrate the most heinous crimes against their own people. The government-owned daily newspapers in Zimbabwe, like radio and television, have long been propaganda organs for Mugabe...
...stinking mud becomes more evilly yellow, the shell holes fill up with green white water ... O it is unspeakable, Godless, hopeless," he wrote, traumatized but still making color notes. His sketches formed the basis of paintings like We Are Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through clouds the color of dried blood, illuminating blasted trees and pitted khaki sludge. In The Menin Road (1919) Nash depicts the ravaged battleground almost as a Renaissance altarpiece, complete with symbolism and grand scale. In the foreground, the sickly light reflects off a flooded shellhole in which a uniform...
Cabot Professor of Astronomy Dimitar Sasselov, a lead researcher in OGLE, compared viewing these eclipses to spotting a mosquito in front of a searchlight hundreds of miles away...
Whether there's a lush little Earth spinning around 55 Cancri is still anybody's guess. Spotting even a giant planet in the glare of its sun is so hard--astronomers compare it to looking for a firefly next to a searchlight--that no one really sees any of these extra-solar worlds. Instead, investigators look for tiny perturbations in the position of the mother star that may suggest that the gravity of a planet of a particular size and distance is tugging...
Miramax has the sharp sex comedy Tadpole (opening July 19) on its summer slate, says Gill, because "a very sophisticated comedy is much tougher to release in the fall, when there are sophisticated dramas." Fox Searchlight is putting out The Good Girl, a dark comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, on Aug. 7, and duplicating the carefully mapped out release pattern it used for The Deep End last year. Like many indie films, The Good Girl will open first in New York City and Los Angeles. "When you don't have big TV-advertising budgets and you're really relying on publicity...