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...anyway, undersung. Turner Classic Movies did run a four-day tribute to Mann last month, and that was nice, even if TCM didn't include his late masterpiece, the epic El Cid. I also hear that Jeanine Basinger's excellent 1978 study of the director may be issued by Wesleyan University Press, though at the moment the book can be found only in a bilingual edition published two years ago by the San Sebastian Film Festival, and then only if you ask the author to send you a copy. (Thank you, Jeanine...
...that he was “a little embarrassed” by the flub. But it was not immediately clear what his assurances mean for the international research centers that allocate grants to students. Melissa H. Wojciechowski, the student programs and events coordinator for the Center for International Development (CID), said yesterday that she had not heard about Summers’ remarks and could not comment this weekend. The CID received six times more applications than it could fund this year, according to an e-mail sent to students who were denied funding. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs also...
...year because more and more students are recognizing the importance of having an international experience—and the Office of International Programs is doing a great job at facilitating this interest,” wrote Melissa H. Wojciechowski, the student engagement coordinator for the Center for International Development (CID), in an e-mail. In an e-mail sent to rejected applicants, the CID said that they received six times more proposals than they were able to fund, making the selection process highly competitive. The CID funded nine research grants. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) reported...
Responsibility for this shameful policy did not stop with Gonzales. When Senator John McCain introduced legislation to reverse the Gonzales position, President George Bush threatened to veto it, and Vice President Dick Cheney lobbied to permit the CIA to continue using CID...
With the passage of the McCain legislation, the CID prohibition applies once more to anyone in U.S. custody, American or foreigner, held at home or overseas, but that is no reason for complacency. Under the definition adopted by the U.S., CID occurs when an interrogation technique “shocks the conscience.” But CIA Director Porter Goss testified in March that water-boarding—a classic form of torture in which suspects are subjected to mock execution by drowning—is a “professional interrogation technique.” Timothy Flanigan, former deputy...