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...Chand's ice-cream factory, which had paid for a five-bedroom house and three servants, closed overnight. Replacing them were an army of quacks, fly-by-night nongovernmental organizations and lawyers. After fighting compensation claims in the courts for five years, Union Carbide paid out $470 million, but victims often received only $500 for injuries and $2,000 for deaths. Some widows given new houses on the edge of town by the state government promptly sold them, pocketed the money and moved back to the slums. And this October, when India's Supreme Court ordered the Reserve Bank...
...piece is the eloquence of gesture. Each of the actors has telling little moments: Portman's busyness with a stranger's glasses; the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep every scene rich and lively, in a film...
While Robert K. Lord ’08, the victim in last Monday’s unfortunate armed robbery, was no doubt brave to bargain with his robbers to keep his electronic daily organizer and cell phone (which he was nearly successful in saving), his actions should not serve as a model to other students. Not only did Lord put himself in unnecessary danger, he was almost run over as he chased after the robbers, attempting to read their license plate number. Students must bear in mind that robbers, especially those with firearms, nearly always have the tactical advantage...
...mouth, she's edging it toward a slippery slope--quite literally when she takes a skiing vacation with Darcy, and more figuratively when Grant's Daniel Cleaver puts his absurdly smooth and hilariously transparent moves on her. Later she finds herself in jail in Thailand, the innocent victim of a drug bust. The logic of this plotting may be--well, is--a little shaky, but who cares? Just as we are prepared to forgive Bridget the woman, so we forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. --By Richard Schickel
Flaquer was not the victim of unintended consequences. A firm Guatemalan patriot, she fought unfairness in her own country for over 20 years in an effort to bring justice and equality to the tiny Central American country...