Word: concerned
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...eager to cash in on Burke's burgeoning celebrity that we assume we're watching a young Ari Gold (without Ari's personal trainer). But Fogler, who had a gleeful part as the head of a absurd theater troupe in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, conveys a genuine concern for Burke, and we grow fond of him as well. Love never happens in this movie, but at least there's some liking here and there...
...more immediate concern will be the negotiations in Copenhagen. Since Reid's comments, environmental groups have been getting calls from foreign embassies suddenly unsure of where the U.S. stands on a global deal. What they want to avoid is a replay of the negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol back in 1997 - the U.S., led by then Vice President Al Gore, agreed to long-term carbon-emission reductions, only to be repudiated later 95-0 by the U.S. Senate...
...without fully understanding their “sense of scale,” or actual effects on the budget, and requested that Smith provide a guideline to help administrators better correlate cuts with numbers. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter B. Machinist ’66, who expressed concern about the fate of “smaller humanistic fields” that may be in “some peril,” asked Smith to iterate his intellectual priorities...
There is a lot of technical information in the book. Are you at all worried that it could be used as a how-to guide? There is always that concern with any book that is dark and deep as well as informative. I want people to be engaged with the book - but certainly not that engaged...
...What problems came up in the pursuit of international justice in Sierra Leone? The concern all of us had was that we were conducting justice in a comfortable courtroom with long trials and well-paid attorneys. Prisoners had single cells, and they had committed the worst crimes. A mile away in the local prison there were simply no resources. Cases can't go forward, witnesses are lost, and people stay in detention for many years at a stretch. [If I was] to do it over, I would try to develop a court within the national system. That would...