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...such courts to bring former Baathist officials to justice. At a recent conference, Iraqi human-rights groups lashed out at a director of the reconciliation effort in Cambodia, where the process of trying members of Pol Pot's regime has taken decades and still hasn't begun in earnest. "How can we be expected to wait 23 years like you?" demanded Ibrahim Idrissi, president of Iraq's Freed Prisoners Association. "We want to get some justice here, and we wish this process would start tomorrow...
...Rogus heroics began in earnest after Harvard took a timeout with 10:56 to play trailing 55-41. 8:19 later, the Wildcats led by just five. Spearheading the Crimson comeback was Rogus, who scored 17 points and had a steal and three of his five three-pointers during the stretch...
...Monster.com 71% of workers polled said they put in more than 40 hours a week, and 57% consider themselves overworked. "They can't do that forever," says Zandi. "Companies have got to hire." After the 1991-92 recession, it took 18 months for job growth to resume in earnest. "If history is any guide," says Zandi, "it won't be long...
Notwithstanding Richards’ good intentions, that demographic remains resolutely mature, although not excessively so. There’s some gray hair, but the vibe is more grad school than grandma; think art-yuppie horn-rimmed glasses, martinis, film talk that teeters between earnest and word-weary. We’re in the back room, apparently reserved for the restaurant’s more frugal customers—the pre-film reception plus movie entrance is only $12, and everyone’s delicately grabbing as many hors d’oeuvres as they can without actually resorting to physical...
Taken overall, however, Lorenzaccio is subtle even in its moments of seeming heavy-handedness—or, rather, it’s heavy-handed in a professional, evocative and functionally dramatic way. Animated by Scheib’s supreme sense of action, Lorenzaccio is a persuasive winner, an earnest effort at presenting its audience with complicated, challenging theater...