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...earth at a tipping point, full of fresh opportunities to eradicate poverty and promote social justice, yet fraught with looming dangers as its peoples struggle to adapt to globalization, technological advances and climate change. But there are those who think that Brown, buffeted by dissent and blindsided by serial mishaps, could soon be forced into singing his own sad song of departure. And the medicine he's proposing for the international community - a reinvigorated multilateralism, in which nations work together through institutions like the United Nations, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank, coupled with radical reform of those bodies...
...this really is the beginning of the end for Mugabe, it will have significance throughout Africa, where the years since Ghana first won its freedom in 1957 have been a serial, tragic disappointment, marked by war, genocide, poverty and famine. At the root of them all was ruinous leadership. With few exceptions, Africa's postindependence leaders wrested their continent back from colonial rule only to plunder it afresh. Contemptuous of their own people and often destined for a bloody end, many contrived to make their nations poorer than they were in colonial times...
...Angela Makholwa, author of the serial-killer thriller Red Ink, visited prisoners in Pretoria's notorious C-Max prison for research, and got more than she bargained for. "I established a relationship with one of these men, who happened to be one of the most vilified South African serial killers," she says. "The more I got to know him, the more conflicted I became about defining prime evil. Although I knew what he had done, I found my initial impression of him slowly peeling away...
...herrole is negligible and she adds little to thefilm. Although she plays a desperatelyunhappy woman who has spent most ofher life running away from home, comfort,and love, Theron never quite losesher Hollywood glamour. This is surprisinggiven that she won an AcademyAward in 2003 for her transformationinto repulsive serial killer Aileen Wuornosin “Monster.”Thankfully, Joleen disappears quiteearly in the movie, leaving Tara andJames to cope with her disappearance.The relationship that forms betweenthese two characters is the film’s savinggrace. Robb brilliantly portrays Tara’soscillation between pre-teen awkwardness?...
...This method can also help in proving or disproving alibis. For example, if a serial killer is roaming the country and claims that he has never been in Akron, Ohio, but you have a history of his hair that places him in that geographic area, it raises some questions. "It's like a credit card transaction that puts you in a place. If you said you were never there, then you have some explaining to do," points out Park...