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...Lois Braun, ST. PAUL, MINN...
What do Don Cheadle, a wide-eyed activist, a high-powered Argentinean lawyer, a sheikh, a rebel fighter, and a UN worker have in common? A passion for effecting change in war-torn Darfur. Ted Braun, writer and director of “Darfur Now,” spotlights these six individuals in his latest surprisingly encouraging documentary. “Darfur Now” makes its timely arrival on the heels of the U.S. declaration of genocide this September. Against convention, the Sudanese government granted Braun permission to shoot inside the region, and the well crafted film, thoroughly researched...
Moreno-Ocampo believes in the inevitability of international justice, the idea that even the world's worst thugs will face a reckoning in court. "To me, he really seems like a Don Quixote figure," says Ted Braun, director of Darfur Now. "He's one man, working alone, taking on the world with a great vision of what he can do, but without a lot of overt backing." If that bothers Moreno-Ocampo, he doesn't show it. Finishing his coffee, he tells me that the ICC is helping to establish a new approach to international relations, in which states interact...
...nativist time like ours, it's hard to imagine a national effort so peopled by foreigners--German expat Wernher von Braun building our rockets, New Zealand immigrant William Pickering heading our unmanned program. In a time of flash-paper attention spans, it's similarly hard to picture any agency surviving the setbacks NASA did. Ranger 7 was the first unmanned U.S. ship to land on the moon--following the sequential failures of Rangers1 through 6. Think that program would make it as far as Ranger4 today...
...Hired guns like Semel, on the other hand, aren't usually cut as much slack. Semel tried to inject Yahoo! with some Hollywood flair, but it was ultimately his downfall. In 2004, he drafted former ABC mogul Lloyd Braun to run Yahoo!'s media and entertainment division. That multiheaded beast included Yahoo!'s movies, TV, entertainment, music, games, finance, news and weather, sports, health and kids businesses. If that sounds like a lot under one departmental roof, it was. Braun eventually left and the division was restructured...