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...become laws unto themselves, fixated on their own orthodoxies, or get too intimate with their political masters. But tinkering with secrecy laws or government machinery cannot cure the problem revealed when people are willing to disregard their secrecy pledges to become whistle-blowers. In democracies, at least, intelligence agencies depend on a shared public belief that their cause is just, even if their methods are sometimes unsavory. Blair never convinced a lot of people in Britain that the Iraq war was just - and those who resent him for it now form an archipelago of the disaffected. Inside the spy agencies...
...Europe see film as a cultural product and not as a commercial product," he says. "That limits mass appeal of a film and that's why people don't go to the cinema." Will these bills make a difference where it counts - at the box office? The answer will depend on whether or not the films they help produce even make it into cinemas. With multiplexes (most American-owned) sprouting up at the rate of over 1,000 screens a year all over Europe and replacing the old art houses, smaller films find themselves jostling for space with blockbusters...
...University has plenty of money to buy up land and make lavish improvements around campus but it claims there’s not enough money to pay the salaries of people who depend on their jobs to live,” said Geoff P. Carens, a Harvard College Librarian and member of the No Layoffs Campaign (NLC), the activist group that organized the rally...
Ehrenreich says that the success of the Ombuds Office will ultimately depend on word of mouth...
Problems begin when, for one reason or another, the inflammatory process persists and becomes chronic; the final effects are varied and depend a lot on where in the body the runaway reaction takes hold. Among the first to recognize the broader implications were heart doctors who noticed that inflammation seems to play a key role in cardiovascular disease...