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...becoming increasingly violent, and virulent nationalism is on the rise again. There have been more than 100 politically motivated assaults in the past three months alone, and hate speech is increasingly common in the media and politics. The targets are human-rights activists, journalists and politicians who dare to stand up against the nationalists. One reason for the nationalist revival is the U.N.'s push toward independence for Kosovo, a province mostly populated by ethnic Albanians, but cherished as a historic heartland by most Serbs. Another is that democracy has failed to bring economic prosperity, so people are growing nostalgic...
...wrote Shaun and plays the film's lovelorn zombie hunter, remembers wishing he had someone with whom to share the joy of cinematic subtext when he first saw E.T. in 1982. In one scene, Spielberg dropped in the music from Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back. "I remember wanting to stand up in the theater and say, 'Did you just hear that?!'" says Pegg, whose new film, Hot Fuzz, provides similar moments for fans of buddy-cop movies like Bad Boys II. Other fanboys who have gone on to work in the business include Spider-Man director Sam Raimi...
...Virginia State police computer system, which also checks federal records. He added that he and his salesmen look for odd behavior. "You can't believe how much we screen people," he said. "We look to see people that are coming in to buy guns. Somebody that ducks behind a stand and starts whispering to somebody else he's with, we're not likely to deal with...
...best news for abortion-rights supporters may be what didn't happen in this case. We've all been waiting to see where the court's two Bush appointees - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito - stand on Roe v. Wade, and when given the chance to repudiate it in this case, both justices declined. That opportunity came in the form of a separate opinion that Justice Clarence Thomas wrote and Scalia joined but both Roberts and Alito did not endorse - a concurrence that not only supports the majority, but goes so far as to say there shouldn...
...After Columbine, her intense grief lasted at least two months. She couldn't stand to be touched. She only wanted to be with fellow students who had undergone the same experiences. She could think of little else...