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...Waal, program director at New York's Social Science Research Council and author of several books on Africa, "when you move to coercive peacekeeping, you're no longer neutral. You cannot expect to be treated above and beyond the conflict. You are part of it." Hence MONUC has been beset by accusations of bias from all sides, many with some merit. Now, diminished in authority, it finds itself dodging rocks from the very people on whose behalf it took up the responsibility to protect...
...obvious inspiration is Federico Fellini's 8-1/2, in which Guido, a moviemaker with director's block, is beset by memories and fantasies as he dodges all the women in his life, from mother to wife to whore to mistress to muse. Caden has women problems (wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea...
...research assistant with the program. Bruderlein said he hopes that the Peace Lab will be able to learn from Indonesia’s success in peacefully resolving internal conflict to teach conflict resolution techniques to professionals hoping to replicate its success. The nation was beset by violent separatist movements in recent years—most notably in Aceh and East Timor—and managed to resolve both conflicts through diplomatic means. Because of Indonesia’s ability to weather such conflicts, Totok Soefijanto, a deputy rector at Paramadina University, wrote in an e-mail that he thinks...
...directions around a 17-mile underground track at a rate of 11,245 circuits a second - a miniscule fraction less than the speed of light - smash them together and then sift through the debris of explosions that replicate the conditions of the Big Bang. The experiment, which has been beset by delays, has taken 25 years to plan, $6 billion to build and involved over 9000 scientists from around the globe...
...government riddled with corruption and a country beset by crime. That's the European Commission's grim verdict on Bulgaria, a nation that was supposed to have cleaned up its act when it joined the European Union 18 months...