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...also an understandable consequence of the Bush Administration's tendency to play fast and loose on issues of war and peace-rushing to war after overhyping the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons program, appearing to tolerate torture, keeping secret prisons in foreign countries and denying prisoners basic rights. At the very least, the Administration should have acted, with alacrity, to update the federal intelligence laws to include the powerful new technologies developed...
...Well, I tried to be transparent. And to make people aware of the constraints we were under. The basic parameters of this response were set before I got there: the city had already been flooded, there were certain contracts that had [already] been awarded. My goal was to take what we were doing and make it as efficient as we possibly could. You can't let the conditions that were set before you got there rent space in your head...
Match PointDirected by Woody AllenDreamWorks4 1/2 starsBy the looks of the trailer, “Match Point” seems like an intense romance/thriller hybrid, in the vein of “Fatal Attraction” or “Basic Instinct.” While the preview overplays the suspense, the taut and enthralling film is certainly a thrilling return to form for Woody Allen.After his 10 years of mediocrity and outright disappointment (with 1997’s “Deconstructing Harry” his only saving grace), in the phenomenal “Match Point...
...Well, I tried to be transparent. And to make people aware of the constraints we were under. The basic parameters of this response were set before I got there: the city had already been flooded, there were certain contracts that had [already] been awarded. My goal was to take what we were doing and make it as efficient as we possibly could. You can't let the conditions that were set before you got there rent space in your head...
...person force is made up of combined civilian police and military personnel from several dozen countries and is led by the Brazilians who are proud of their humanitarian work--building and road repair, medical treatment and trash collection, all crucial tasks in a country where basic services have all but collapsed. (The U.S., which sent 20,000 troops into Haiti in 1994, is not part of MINUSTAH and has refused to commit troops.) The Brazilians, however, recognize that the Mission has been unable to provide widespread security or stop the crime and political killings that plague Haiti. The proliferation...