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...career is brought out as follows in The New York World: "Gilbert Murray is an outstanding world figure. He has translated the Greek dramas into English as beautifully as any-scholar, past or present: he is an authority upon Greek life and history. But he is also a citizen of the world of today and as chairman of the executive League of Nations Union he has impressed his personality upon great affairs in this troubled time...
...long career. His performance as a retired insurance executive is a deeply complex and hilariously tragic portrayal of the most banal aspects of one man’s post-mid-life crisis. Director Alexander Payne, famous for his digressions on suburban angst in films such as Election and Citizen Ruth, keeps the tone light and the characters archetypally and delicously bizarre. About Schmidt screens...
...Sidney Wolfe, Health Research Director of the public-interest lobby group Public Citizen, said the real number of lost instruments may be even higher because hospitals are not obliged to report such mistakes to public agencies...
Then on Nov. 3 in a remote area of Yemen, a CIA Predator loosed a Hellfire missile that vaporized a car in which a top al- Qaeda leader, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, was thought to be riding along with five other people, including an American citizen. The American, believed to be Kamal Derwish, was later described by Administration officials as the leader of an alleged al- Qaeda sleeper cell in New York State. The officials said he persuaded young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, to travel to Afghanistan for religious studies at locations that turned...
Perhaps Derwish deserved the fate of the company he kept, or perhaps he was a certified bad guy. Nevertheless, an American citizen not charged or convicted of any crime was killed by a CIA Predator, targeted in cooperation with the Pentagon, and there was hardly a peep of protest in this country. Where is the outrage? Intelligence officials say killing an American with a Hellfire missile was perfectly fine because he was an "enemy combatant," a term that the government seems to apply freely these days. Besides, the CIA claims, it didn't know that an American...