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...9/11” to “Jarhead”—Gaghan’s agenda is not to vilify the Washington insider or laud the soldier, but instead to raise awareness of an extremely corrupt system in which we, the average consumer, are the primary benefactor. “Syriana”’s success depends not on box office receipts, but in its power to make its viewers think twice about their own behavior while illuminating the slick inner workings of the oil industry...
...Fogg Art Museum said, “I think that if the painting was donated last year, then it would be insensitive, but after 77 years, it’s not insensitive, but instead impractical to attempt to contact a scattered group of descendants of the initial benefactor...
...Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Syria step up its efforts to investigate its involvement in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) benefactor Rafik Hariri...
...many students, Loker is a meeting area and workspace, and has a regular weeknight population of undergraduates who use its facilities. True, this type of use hardly constitutes the kind of student center environment envisioned by benefactor Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, but it is use of the space nonetheless. For many, the creation of a pub in Loker would mean the end of the space’s potential for productivity...
...Deteriorating relations between China and Japan only make it harder to bridge the gaps. Yet together the two countries may hold the keys to the solution. As North Korea's biggest benefactor, Beijing can nudge Pyongyang into accepting that it must negotiate if the issue is to be resolved peacefully?thereby preserving North Korea's existence and subsistence. At the same time, Japan, as Washington's close ally, is uniquely placed to press the U.S. to show some flexibility in American demands for "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearization by the North...