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...Arizona Senator, didn't charm many Palestinians, either - not even the Christians among them - when he said that "turning all or part of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." So much for the fate of Jerusalem being on the agenda of the Bush Administration's peace initiative...
...NATO's member nations convene in Bucharest, Romania, to discuss the state of the alliance, Afghanistan will be at the top of the agenda. General Dan McNeil, commander of the alliance's 43,250 soldiers in Afghanistan, has lobbied for another troop surge to help battle the rising insurgency in the country's south. But lower-level commanders on the ground have something else to add to that wish list. Says one: "Frankly, defeating the Taliban is the least of our worries. They are not going to beat us. What is killing this country is corruption and drugs. That...
...search for his mother. The plot is conventional, but Carlitos is heartbreakingly cute. His relationship with Enrique (Eugenio Derbez), the migrant worker who comes to take care of him, is charming, funny, and by far the film’s greatest strength. Like nearly all movies with a political agenda, however, “Under the Same Moon” has its limitations. Director Patricia Riggen primarily uses the mother-son story to frame a broad survey of illegal immigrant hardship. It’s a well-intentioned move to educate the public, but the film’s sweeping...
...there's another bad omen. Calabria and the south are conspicuously absent from the national agenda. Only in passing does the region feature in campaign speeches, and there are few premium spots for southerners on the political parties' parliamentary-candidate lists. True commitment to solving the problems of the "Mezzogiorno" - as Italy's eight southernmost regions are known - is clearly not considered a vote getter. Yet for reasons that transcend geography, turning around the south ought to be Italy's most pressing national priority. Youth unemployment in the Mezzogiorno is a staggering 36%; and between 1991 and 2005, according...
...April 9. “Given that all three speakers tonight mentioned this question of data,” said committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, “it is pretty important that we do discuss it as an agenda item.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu...