By Dan Craft As a certain pointy-eared crusader descends upon us at high midnight tonight, we're moved to make several tangential, but, we promise, reasonably connected observations from a lifetime moving in and out of Gotham City: - No doubt about it, of course: A big chunk of the new film's ("The Dark Knight") allure will be the frankly morbid one of the late (how strange it still sounds to say that) Heath Ledger's last stand, made doubly, triply morbid by the character he's playing.

By Aissatou Sidime, San Antonio Express-News Oct. 9--When the military notified Capt. Cesar Romero in January that he would be reassigned from Elmendorf AFB in Alaska to Randolph AFB, his family commenced a relocation plan they had honed during four previous moves.