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...which sits just off the rocky northwest coast of Greenland, is also home to one of the largest glaciers in the world, one that is melting speedily, pouring freshwater and the occasional iceberg into Baffin Bay. After getting properly outfitted for our trip to NEEM the next day - our weather forecast is in the teens, but temperatures really can be polar even during the summer - we take a car trip out to the vanishing edge of the glacier, some 30 km outside town. It's the waning hours of the afternoon, though it's hard to tell; time loses...
...miracles do happen. And Frozen River is one of them. That's largely - but not entirely - because Ray is played by Melissa Leo, who's at least a little bit known for her television appearances on Homicide: Life on the Streets. She contrives to look as weather-beaten as her front door and to act tough-minded without being closed-minded. She'd do anything to give her two kids a better, or at least a more hopeful, life. That, as it happens, includes smuggling illegal immigrants from Canada across the eponymous river...
...Brown counts the days until his planned holiday at the English seaside, he looks hale, if not hearty. But the latest by-election result really has triggered some violent tremors in Westminster. If the Prime Minister feels a touch under the weather, it's probably a bout of motion sickness...
...last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission discovered that the booster-seal problem was not merely a low-level worry; top NASA officials were aware of it, even if they were never told of the recommendation by Thiokol engineers against launching Challenger in cold weather. The report cites a briefing on the booster seals given on Aug. 19, 1985, to the headquarters staff of NASA by concerned shuttle managers at both Thiokol and Marshall. While the briefing paper urged action to correct the faulty seal, it concluded that the shuttle was safe to fly until...
...Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail settled down across the street from the Humphrey Bogarts, and Gail went to school with Natalie Wood. If Lena's durable career seems to have been plucked from the book of an MGM musical...