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...facts, and has been paying millions of dollars to make sure the public hears it. The first attempt, a graphic and slickly produced documentary called War 08.08.08: The Art of Betrayal, was released three months after the conflict. It argued that American mercenaries had helped the Georgian government commit genocide against the people of South Ossetia, a separatist region that Russia says it was forced to step in to protect. But the project fell flat. Narrated by Canadian George Watts - a former translator for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - its arguments seemed heavy-handed even to sympathetic critics...
...beauties of the program is that, for a very brief period of time, students can really commit themselves to this in a very full way without compromising themselves academically,” says Megan. “It is a focused period of time during which they get to work on a variety of disciplines and ideas related to theater practice, and they get to do this in a very concentrated way, without interruption...
...also leaning on them to commit 10,000 more troops to what is effectively our third surge in Afghanistan over the last two years. (In January 2008, only 26,000 American troops were there. By the time this surge has been deployed, we will total...
...China (where it performed abysmally), Disney's Mulan was a smash hit in the rest of the world, where it reeled in $300 million. That didn't sit well with some Chinese, including Guo Shu, executive president of Starlight International Media Group, an entertainment company based in Beijing. "We commit ourselves to be a media with a sense of national responsibility," she told the state-run People's Daily. "Now that foreigners can produce a popular movie out of the story Hua Mulan, why can't we Chinese present its own to the world...
...there who are ready to do anything, who have lost parents during the [Chechen] wars, brothers, sisters, who have never gone to school, who have done nothing but train with Umarov and those around him. Under the cover of religion, of Islam, they will push these young people to commit these acts." (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...