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...Eric Roberts) they can handle, with the help of stalwart police lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman). But the Joker - this guy is nuts. He does deals with the Mob, then crosses them up. He makes a point with his pencil by ramming it into a gangster's head. "This town," he says, "deserves a better class of criminals." So do action movies, and here he is, vowing to bring down Batman and Dent, just...
...then Lieutenant Cook passed the headland that locals now call "the Point" and on May 24, 1770, he anchored H.M. Bark Endeavour just under two miles (3.2 km) off the coast and led a small landing party ashore. They poked around what is now the burgeoning (and quaintly named) Town of 1770, at the mouth of Round Hill Creek - over three miles (5 km) north of Agnes Water. After collecting plant specimens and noticing smoke rising from Aboriginal campfires in the distance, they sailed off the following...
Meeting for a second day in the Japanese resort town of Toyako, the leaders of the G-8 nations released a declaration on climate change, endorsing the idea of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050. It was the clearest signal yet of the international community's willingness to grapple with the long-term danger of global warming, which threatens to change the face of the planet if nations don't shift to a low-carbon economy. Politicians at the summit were pleased. "The science is clear, the economic case for action is stronger than ever," said Jose...
Last Friday, incoming law professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75 and Kennedy School scholar Samantha Power were married in the seaside town of Waterville in Kerry, Ireland...
...June 28, tens of thousands took to the streets of Weng'an, a rural town in remote Guizhou Province, to protest what they believed was a cover up by the local authorities of the alleged rape and murder of a 15 year-old schoolgirl, Li Shufei. The protesters torched upwards of 20 cars and set fire to both the local police station and the Communist Party headquarters. Even before the dismissals of top local officials, it was clear this incident was going to be treated differently. On July 3 the provincial governor, Shi Zongyuan, made an unusually blunt statement condemning...