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...dinner Friday night, Bok recounted his efforts more than two decades ago to convince Thompson to head the project. “He, that scoundrel, would not come!” Bok said, in reference to the eight years he waited for Thompson to accept the post. As guests celebrated the center’s first 20 years, Thompson said that there are still challenges ahead for the Safra Center and other ethics institutes. “The biggest challenges are still what they’ve always been,” Thompson said. “In general, people...
...Which is what serious filmmakers do, especially in works shown at festival like this one. As a Cannes critic, I accept their right to undercut expectations; I hereby validate their modernist parking ticket. But there's enough of a movie kid left in me that I'd like to see this almost-great effort not go bust at the end, but climax in a great big bloody BOOM...
...prevailed on their terms - he received a qualified statement of support about whether he had violated conflict-of-interest rules when he intervened on behalf of Shaha Ali Riza, his girlfriend. The Board noted Wolfowitz's assurances that he had performed in good faith. The Board said it would "accept" those assurances, a remarkable outcome considering the circumstances. And so Wolfowitz, satisfied that his name and honor were still intact, tendered his resignation, effective at the end of June. He had to go; he had become a distraction...
...also assumes that film scenes showing adult characters smoking causes young people to smoke. Amidst all the cultural messages young people receive, film dramatizations can’t compare to the influence of friends, family, teachers, and doctors, among others. Besides, if we accept the fact that minors should not see films depicting unhealthy behavior, they will not see movies about anorexia, war, drug abuse, suicide, and many other topics – even though these films might help them understand the world better...
...President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, an active backer of the plan, said that after the technology is first implemented, its initial success could push all the House masters to accept...