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...highly recommend the Warren Zevon song “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner...
...after hour. It’s their virtual party, and they’ll fly dragons if they want to. THE WORLD OF WARCRACK“It’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed by peering into it from the outside,” acknowledges WoW player Roland C. Nadler ’09.WoW is indeed a complicated game with, as Nadler describes it, its “own Tolkienesque lore.” Players create a level one character and complete various missions in order to push their characters up the ranks until they hit level...
...just 33 cases. Those figures rankle the Rwandans, who believe they could have accomplished more at home, more quickly and with less cash. But finding the suspects - even for such a tiny fraction of the country's likely killers - is a challenge. "International justice does not come cheap," says Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the ICTR. Tribunal funds have had to cover everything from locating and indicting the suspects to negotiating their transfer - from countries as far-flung as Cameroon and Zambia, Switzerland and the U.S. - and then hosting long and complicated trials. More than 2,000 witnesses have been flown...
...recent morning in Moscow, the crew for You and I, an English-language movie directed by British filmmaker Roland Joffé, huddled listlessly around a candy-red Ferrari in the shadow of the Hotel Ukraine. The Ferrari scene was critical to the story, a coming-of-age drama about two young women caught up in Moscow's high life, but the crew's idleness was now stretching into hours. The shoot required a police escort that had been approved well in advance. But the Moscow city police on hand seemed bent upon giving the moviemakers yet another real-world lesson...
...cost of years of war--starker, in a way, because the focus is on the families left behind. Pamela (Brigid Brannagh)--whose husband is about to ship off for duty--becomes a surrogate mother to keep the family afloat (a reminder of how stretched military families often are). Roland (Sterling K. Brown) deals with his returned-vet wife's drinking and post-traumatic stress disorder. Denise (Catherine Bell) waits anxiously after her husband's Blackhawk crashes in Iraq. Only one spouse goes to war, the show says, but the whole family goes under siege...