Word: baer
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...when I got to Harvard, largely because of my politics, largely because I was a non-Zionist Jew,” Pace said, the Arab students organization “sort of took me under their wing, in a manner of speaking.”Merritt R. Baer ’06, a social studies concentrator from Denver who is the alumni coordinator of Native Americans at Harvard College, said, “My little brother is of the Oglala Lakota, and we adopted him as a foster child, so that’s sort of the basis...
...Philadelphia Daily News columnist John M. Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif...
...movies with a message may pay off yet. Syriana, Participant's venture with Clooney, and its third and most ambitious movie to date, opened nationwide in late November and has received favorable reviews and plenty of buzz. Based on the book See No Evil by former cia operative Robert Baer, the film looks at the danger of U.S. reliance on Middle Eastern oil. The film may earn back its investment. But Skoll cares even more about its spurring a serious discussion on alternative energy. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and Terra Pass, Skoll asks...
After 10 days, the trio piled into a Renault 25 and set off for Venice. In a hotel restaurant on the road, with Charlotte upstairs watching MTV, Gaghan felt comfortable enough to ask, "So, you ever kill anybody?" Baer said, "I've made decisions that resulted in people's deaths, maybe hundreds of people's deaths, but I never lost a night's sleep. Never. Because I had 500 pages of U.S. law to hide behind." Gaghan's initial thought was that he had been fed a line--and a bad one. Gradually, though, he realized Baer's candor with...
...final film, the plot, rather, plots are wholly invented and the names have been changed. Clooney's character is called Bob Barnes, although his expertise and undercurrent of melancholy are pure Baer. (Barnes' prodigiously sarcastic son Robby is modeled on Charlotte Baer.) But the fruits of Gaghan's research are obvious. Syriana's characters--from would-be Arab princes to American oil traders, CIA agents to terrorists--behave in exquisitely detailed and complicated ways. They cross paths and challenge one another's assumptions, just as Gaghan's were challenged. Of course, Syriana is entertainment first and foremost. It just happens...