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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iraq are interspersed with footage from the Congressional debates over the war in October 2002. While Young learns to deal with life in a wheelchair, senators pontificate on war and the constitutional implications of granting greater executive power to the President. Unsurprisingly, the film doesn’t just adopt a self-righteous tone but positively revels in it. The exchanges between Young’s anti-war mother and pro-war father could hardly be more simplistic, with the loyalties of the film clearly placed well on the maternal side. At Young’s wedding, his new mother...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Body of War | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

Berry said that he’s looking forward to co-teaching his new course, which he said will adopt an interdisciplinary approach...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New additions bring number of approved Gen Ed courses to 15 | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Naimi had no good news for those hoping for some relief from sky-high prices. He said it could take "at least 50 years" for the world to comprehensively adopt alternatives to the oil and gas that today account for about 90% of world energy consumption. Naimi castigated Western governments that have pushed biofuels as the major energy alternative, which has ravaged forests and agricultural land. Biofuels, he said, "will produce just 6% of energy consumption by 2010, and has not even reduced greenhouse gases." Instead, the world's most powerful oilman advocated "truly renewable sources of energy, like solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC: Gas Prices Will Stay High | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...elements of the United States Government." Another section said that no person under U.S. control could be treated or interrogated with techniques "not authorized by or listed in" the manual. But in the end, after consultation with fellow Senators and others, McCain and his staff did not adopt this draft language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has McCain Flip-Flopped on Torture? | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...there may not be the people here to do the job," he says. As for Tusk's "liberal" agenda, says Lucjan Bednarz, a local PIS activist: "Only youngsters who are not yet able to have a stable opinion and who are influenced by certain TV programs adopt the kind of rootless, temporary opinions which are favorable to the Civic Platform." As for Tusk himself, says Bednarz, "So far, he hasn't shown anything." PIS supporters, by contrast, he says, "are devout. They go to church and they value patriotism. PIS gives them these values without promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Poland | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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