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...insists things are going according to plan, and that the critics are forgetting the initial warnings from the Pentagon and the White House that this would be a long, complicated war in which previous definitions no longer apply. There's some merit to this criticism. Deep down, the entertainment-driven media culture of the past decade expects a denouement within days. And nobody ever made a talking-head career out of telling audiences how well things are going...
...Within such a context, I am finding it awkward to present the facts about how prolonged bombing chips away at innocent Afghans caught in the middle of all of this. However, I am driven to defend basic principles of humanitarian assistance and to be guided by values that I have carried in my heart since I began my career in Uganda over 20 years ago, taking an active role in helping to heal what Idi Amin had destroyed...
...Vision Thing: "Drugs have always been discovered by chance. Our goal is to use computing science to look deeper at what makes people sick, to turn this drug discovery process, disease prevention or curing process into something that is mathematically driven...
...eclectic Dispatch sound—with its reggae rhythms, rap-style verses, grunge electric guitar solos and bongo drum jams—evolved out of the more acoustically driven One Fell Swoop sound. Talking about their early days, Chad commented that, “We were all pretty affected by grunge and we had that electric sort of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden sound in the back of our minds. It was just a matter of producing that sound. In the beginning
Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, the first entry in the 2001-02 regular season at the Loeb Experimental Theater, is a show about Vietnam that features neither male-driven bravado, nor war-torn freedom fighters in dirty fatigues; Platoon, it isn’t. All conventional expectations of a play dealing with war are thrown out in the opening scene, when the lights come up on six women. These six characters, whose Vietnam experiences and post-war struggles give the play its focus, represent perspectives of the war different from each other, and different from...