Word: civilizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Areva's rise was built on that national commitment, but the company has also benefited from the ambitions of Lauvergeon, who, as a member of France's civil-service élite, first gained public attention as Socialist President François Mitterrand's sherpa during the 1980s. After taking control of the key state-owned nuclear companies, she merged them to create Areva eight years ago. Her early success in convincing foreign clients that nuclear was the power source of the future earned her a remarkable degree of independence from political meddling. "If you look at what she's done...
...tomb on a hilltop in Panshir. But Massoud, who is seen as a hero in large swaths of northern and eastern Afghanistan, is widely despised by the southern Pashtuns and the central Hazara ethnic groups, who suffered terrible depredations at the hands of Massoud's army during the civil war that followed the withdrawal of the Soviets. What's more, Abdullah is not the only former Massoud aide who can claim a connection to the hero's legacy - Marshal Mohammad Fahim, Karzai's running mate, was Massoud's deputy throughout his biggest military victories...
...Legal Aid is a nationally coordinated set of programs that provide civil legal services to people who can’t otherwise afford them. And in Lorain County, Ohio—which has been unwillingly “deindustrializing” and losing good manufacturing jobs for my entire lifetime, if not longer—there is plenty of need...
...they are not opposed to the facility itself, but what it would represent: a continuation of Bush-era policies that allow some detainees to be held indefinitely, without charge. Such policies "are the reason Guantánamo became an international symbol of injustice," says Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. "If you [open] a similar facility in the U.S., that doesn't solve any of the problems that closing Guantánamo was meant to solve." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...
...Internet and PC security, schooling myself on the possibilities of deep-package inspection, VPNs and onion-routing. It was not long before I began to wonder at the online company that I was keeping. What was this world that I had entered? Who exactly, other than pedophiles, committed civil libertarians and the occasional serial killer, bothers with deep encryption...? (See pictures of the aftermath of Iran's turbulent election...