Word: cooperating
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...USAID does not direct the security arrangements of its contractors," said State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper. The contractors themselves, said Cooper, are "responsible for the safety and well-being of their employees." A statement from Unity Resources said the group was "aware that there has been a shooting incident... involving one of [its] security teams" and it was "working with the Iraqi authorities to determine the outcome of [the] incident...
...Riyadh. To solve the case, he brings along a crack trio that updates the multi-ethnic squads found in old World War II movies, and is guaranteed to piss off the religiously and socially conservative Saudis. Along with the black guy, there's the older man (Chris Cooper) who swears a lot; the woman doctor (Jennifer Garner) who insists on wearing tight T shirts; oh, and the Jew (Jason Bateman). Too bad there's no cross-dressing speaker of Arabic. This film doesn't need Jamie Foxx; it needs Jamie Farr...
...decided to build an ecolodge. Since March, the hills of Rwanda have been teeming with thousands of bright green "coffee bikes," designed by mountain-bike maker Tom Ritchey with a lengthened frame to carry a sack of coffee. This isn't all about altruism. Illinois-based stock trader Dan Cooper, who set up Friends of Rwanda with partner Joe Ritchie to coordinate what he calls "this contagious enthusiasm," says: "You get the head of Texaco/Chevron calling Kagame and asking him: 'Can you help me with Ethiopia?'" Meanwhile in Washington, Kagame's new friends fixed him a meeting with the then...
...There were plenty of mature, psychologically complex Westerns. In the original 3:10 to Yuma, the career killer and decent farmer hole up in a hotel room and have an extended existentialist conversation - like Sartre or Beckett, but at gunpoint. In Anthony Mann's Westerns with Stewart and Gary Cooper, a good man with a bad past would face his own demons. The final shootout was both a surge and a purge...
...Studio, became a bounty hunter in Wanted: Dead or Alive. He moved to the big screen in The Magnificent Seven, which introduced a new generation of Western stars, including Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. A good thing, since the previous generation of cowboys, from Wayne, Stewart and Cooper to Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, were becoming so senior that, s Pauline Kael wrote, the only suspense in their Westerns was to see if they could still mount a horse...