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While speaking to British Vogue about the upcoming The Suicide Squad, Robbie discussed the challenges and pleasures of working in a stunt-heavy movie. She went on to say that she is passionate about bringing more women into the action genre as a way of ensuring female actors are being paid fairly. “From a business or statistical standpoint, those are the high-paying jobs,” she explains, “So I really want to advocate for women writing big blockbuster action films....

Once things get going, it’s not Roberts but Justice Anthony Kennedy who may get a lot of the attention. Since Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s departure, Kennedy has emerged as the new swing voter. That could put him in a bind in the abortion cases, Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, set to be argued next month. At issue: whether Congress has the authority to ban the procedure often called “partial-birth abortion....

As always in this jerry-built confederation, each outbreak only masked a deeper conflict. Slovenia and Croatia are Western-oriented republics, moved to declarations of sovereignty by the changes sweeping Eastern Europe in the last two years. Opposing them is the powerful Serbian Republic, one of the region’s last bastions of orthodox communism, and the Yugoslav People’s Army with its Serbian-dominated senior-officer corps. The confrontation is at once ideological and ethnic: a combustible mix fed by centuries of grudges and feuds, including a full-scale civil war that took place under the umbrella of World War II....

Here is the list of the 10 highest-rated productivity apps for Android, as of September 2021. The data comes from AndroidRank.org, and the minimum criteria for including an app in the list is 5,000,000 installs or 10,000 ratings. Let’s take a look. 1. Scan to PDF Average Rating: 4. 88 5-Star Ratings: 93,164 This app is a smart tool that makes your device a portable scanner. It can convert the hard copies of your documents and images into PDF or JPG files....

So, here we’ll take a look at the top free graphic design tools to help graphic designers get work done. 1. Behance Every good graphic design project requires good inspiration. Being the world’s largest creative network, Behance is the perfect platform to help you find some amazing inspiration on poster and logo making, branding, music packaging, and more. On Behance, you can discover the best projects, reputed industry professionals, showcase your own work, and invite feedback from a community that thrives on constructive criticism and creativity....

Soft skills are generally non-technical, and relate to the manner in which you work. They include the way you connect and interact with your colleagues, how you manage your work, and how you manage your energy levels throughout the day. To succeed in the modern workplace, you need to develop several soft skills. Here are some that are in high demand nowadays. 1. Organization Learning how to organize yourself is much easier said than done....

Naturally, one expects such a bold opening claim (doubling as rightwing clickbait,) to be followed by evidence. It was not. Not only did Gingrich offer no support—and I mean absolutely none!—for his claim that AOC’s post-border visit comments were “vicious, cruel, and dishonest,” he did not even identify which particular comments he found problematic. So make no mistake about it, Gingrich’s op-ed and much of the conservative backlash in the same vein is not an argument, it is a personal attack....

[HTML1] A new Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 map pack is almost here and with it comes a new trailer featuring The Replacers. The Replacers, for those that might not remember, are a group of suited individuals (led by Peter Stormare) who step in for players while they’re enjoying some quality time with Black Ops 2’s multiplayer. In this particular trailer, there is a little bit of infighting within The Replacers organization over driving privileges....

Modern-day cricket is as hectic as it has ever been, and the heat is only going to pile up in the years to come. That is the reason we often see fast bowlers missing out on international cricket for a substantial part of their career. Some of them fight it out to become heroes, while others are unfortunate to succumb to the circumstances. In that context, it has been remarkable to witness the resurrection of one of the mainstays of Indian cricket, Mohammed Shami....

Everything about these well-written, well-plotted books is astonishing, starting with the fact that they’ve sold 30 million copies worldwide without the aid of a single action figure. Because this is life and not a fairy tale, those action figures are coming, just not for a while. The licensing rights–for things like sleeping bags, lunchboxes and candy–belong to Warner Brothers. Filming of the first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” starts in late fall....

This can happen because of multiple reasons. There as a time when the initial vaulting of the tactical assault rifle saw the combat shotgun being released as part of the John Wick crossover. Once the collaboration was over, the latter was vaulted, and although the rare and legendary versions of the tactical assault rifle were later reintroduced, the same wasn’t done with combat shotgun. Until now, that is! Is the combat shotgun returning to Fortnite?...

Wilder and Dawson, who now go by Cash Wheeler and Dax Hardwood respectively, were released from their WWE contracts on April 10, five days ahead of the large layoffs that occurred as a part of the promotion’s restructuring during the coronavirus pandemic. The big reason for Wheeler and Hardwood’s request for a release was that they were unhappy with the state of the tag team division. Despite being multi-time champions The Revival—who now go by FTR/The Revolt—wanted the WWE to take tag team wrestling seriously....

“What’s going on?” she asks pointedly. Several of the women exchange looks. “Nothing,” one woman says in a sullen voice. TLC’s case managers, Lisa Wright and Phyllis Green, listen silently as Burks probes, urging the women to speak up. Soon the resentment comes pouring out: the unrelenting pressure to obey the rules is oppressive, the caseworkers are riding them too hard. The mood turns defiant. Some women admit they’ve been smoking pot, which violates the behavior contracts they signed when they entered TLC....

Erin started seeing other men when she went back to work after her youngest child entered preschool. All of a sudden she was out there. Wearing great clothes, meeting new people, alive for the first time in years to the idea that she was interesting beyond her contributions at PTA meetings. Veronica, on the other hand, fell in love with a man who was not her husband while she was safely at home in the Dallas suburbs looking after her two children....

We now find ourselves almost a decade later with Bennett serving as prime minister, and he will no doubt face endless pressure from home and abroad to lead a peace campaign with the Palestinians. In fact, the international campaign has already begun: President Biden closed his official statement congratulating Bennett on his elevation to the prime ministership by prodding him, “My administration is fully committed to working with the new Israeli government to advance security, stability and peace for Israelis, Palestinians and people throughout the broader region....

The children of Greenwich’s wealthy often attend private schools. But many upper-middle-class families buy real estate in the community so that they can send their children to Greenwich High School, one of the most academically competitive public schools in the nation. Other kids have parents who work and live in Greenwich – some in housing projects. The result: a student body of 2,200 that’s sure to be tense. The yearbook message is spread across several pages....

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London clearly believes he was onto something. Its grand new exhibit, “The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957” (thru Jan. 20), is as rich and graceful as the women who originally purchased and wore the clothes. “Dior worked only 10 years but he and his contemporaries had an enormous impact on fashion,” says the show’s curator, Claire Wilcox. “They set a template for how fashion operates today....

Robert Covington closed in from behind, stopped the 6-foot-10 Capela cold and, managing to avoid the body contact that would have drawn him a foul, tied up the NBA’s most accurate shooter last season to earn a jump-ball call . Yes, the Timberwolves are playing legitimate defense these days, even after trading their best defensive player. They erased a 19-point deficit in the final minute of the second quarter Monday night and outscored the high-octane Rockets 55-29 in the second half to notch one of the most remarkable victories in three seasons under coach Tom Thibodeau....

All of which has observers wondering what comes next. Most of these patriarchs retain powerful bases in a region that, unlike Northeast Asia, remains a bastion of authoritarianism. That said, as the titans finally prepare to exit, there are signs that the old status quo is shifting. Indonesia, the first significant test case, has already abandoned the major tenets of Suharto’s dictatorial New Order. His once mighty political party, Golkar, is out of power, and his pet institution, the military, no longer enjoys a lock on politics....