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Affleck will direct and star in the film, based on Chuck Hogan's novel “Prince of Thieves,” a dark, heist-romance centered around Charlestown, according to an e-mail sent to the Harvard Square Business Association...
...project has also raised questions about Lauvergeon's management style. Critics accuse her of being better at selling big projects than at executing them. Some suggest her refusal to reconfigure the joint venture with Siemens to give it a direct stake in Areva ultimately convinced the Germans that they could do better with another partner...
...Having taken direct action, Israel apparently used diplomacy more to handle fallout from its actions. Though the Israeli government announced and then maintained in the face of doubting by its press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spent a full day incommunicado last week because he was visiting a secret Israeli base, it has since admitted Netanyahu leased a private jet from an Israeli citizen and flew to Russia for the day, where he spoke in secret...
...halt Iran’s progress in nuclear capability? The answer may lie in the bizarre story of “The Arctic Sea” and an unannounced, clandestine trip by an Israeli head of state to Moscow. Simply put, Israel has proven itself unafraid to take direct, dramatic action to keep Iran in check. If Israel will not hesitate in playing tough with a country as powerful and potentially belligerent as Russia, the West cannot assume it will hesitate to use a similar “shoot first, ask questions later” policy in the future...
...distributed them to all recipients for free (the price had steadily decreased over time, until it represented just a fraction of the face value). The move dismayed a number of observers, who had supported the program as a means to help the poor help themselves, not as a direct government handout (the Agriculture Department had insisted on selling food stamps for fear of undermining the dignity of recipients). The policy created a backlash - some middle-class shoppers indignantly complained that food-stamp users were eating better than they were - and a number of restrictions on the program, including stricter eligibility...