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...next two years,” said Kinkopf. “I would not still be [...] working a boring-ass job at a publishing company if I didn’t have these guys. I would be writing comedy in L.A. or children’s novels on the shore of some South American country...
...pipeline that was the subject of much controversy, and they have settled two separate cases with EarthRights International regarding the issue. In fact, according to annual reports, Unocal currently has no involvement with any onshore Burmese operations; their only current local affiliation is with an off-shore drilling operation that has not been accused of any human rights violations...
...both the brilliant turquoise of the interior lagoon and, on the other side, waves breaking on the shallow reef that faces the Indian Ocean. There are dozens of islands like Naalaafushi in the Maldives--too many, say government officials, to provide with essential services, let alone shore up against the sea. In time, they hope, the residents of these islands (some of which have populations of not much more than 100 people) will be enticed to move to larger, more secure places like Hulhumal, an artificial island being built from scratch just across the lagoon from the capital. Hulhumal?...
...intent on punishing one another, exacting penance." This flagellation is most evident in a trio of new British films. The wave of ironic celebrations of the imperial past (Chariots of Fire, A Passage to India, The Jewel in the Crown on TV) has ebbed, and on the shore we find the carcass of a small, irrelevant nation, reflected in the films of its sharpest young minds...
...would-be defector was quietly returning to the Marshal Konev until an officer of the ship talked to him at the gangplank. Then Medvid suddenly jumped into the water once again and swam back to shore. There he was caught by the pursuing Soviet officer and handcuffed while struggling violently. He even began beating his head against rocks. He was carried aboard the Konev, still kicking and screaming. On the ship, he slashed his left wrist in a possible suicide attempt...