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Nobody goes to Iraq-war movies. Four or five years ago, at the height of the insurgency, that was because there were no Iraq-war movies. (Vietnam, while it raged, suffered the same Hollywood blackout.) But even when some directors grew a spine and attempted to dramatize the effects of the American adventure on its soldiers (In the Valley of Elah) and civilians (Lions for Lambs) or on U.S. foreign policy (Rendition), the response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom...
Thirty years ago, cheating required work. Students had to go to the stacks, pore over academic texts, and manually copy the information to plagiarize a paper...
...part of a package of reforms introduced several years ago under Corporation senior fellow James R. Houghton ’58 that have intensified recently, Corporation members have begun attending Overseers’ plenary meetings and have solicited input from Overseers on issues they would like to include on the Corporation’s meeting agenda, according to two Overseers...
...also unclear whether recent changes in the Corporation’s operating structure, which Faust contends began several years ago during Houghton’s tenure, are part of the Corporation’s governance review...
Twelve years ago Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland ended a conflict that many said was irreconcilable. As Irish-Americans celebrated St. Patrick’s Day last week and continue to celebrate the remarkable peace achieved on the Emerald Isle, it is important that we all remember the lessons that made that peace possible and how they can be applied to help Israelis and Palestinians achieve a lasting peace of their...