Word: exactions
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...payback time. Lebanese officials, along with Israeli military sources and Western diplomats, say that while Syrian President Bashar Assad may be willing to help pull the Bush Administration out of the Iraqi quicksand, he hopes to exact concessions that would allow him to treat Lebanon, where the Syrian regime has vast financial interests, as his private turf. And according to these same sources, he is unnerved by a U.N.-sponsored inquiry that implicates top Syrian officials in the February 2005 car bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. Assad is hoping that the international probe will...
...from World War II through its involvement in the Bay of Pigs. It is told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite a bit to say about the movie business, why he does comedies...
...Vilsack will run as centrist with a record of success in a red state, the exact same message that Bayh has - except the Indiana Senator and former governor can also point to his years in the Senate for the foreign policy experience that Vilsack lacks. And in terms of offering a different vision for the country, it will be difficult for Vilsack or any of the candidates to stand out, because all of them largely agree on the issues. In 1991-1992, Bill Clinton could run as a different, new kind of Democrat because many in the party didn...
...Unfortunately, instead of quenching the crisis, the tribunal will most likely produce the exact opposite effect. A couple of weeks ago, the Hezbollah and Amal members of the Lebanese cabinet quit their posts in an act—many suspect—of protest against the government’s approval of a UN draft setting up the aforementioned international tribunal...
Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential elections are funded by public UC money. With six tickets in the mix this year—twice last year’s three tickets—our electoral buffet comes with a hefty price tag: $2,400 to be exact. While it might be tempting to find ways to cut that number down—either by increasing the barriers to enter the race or reducing the amount given to each team—we are convinced that the money spent this time of year is well worth it. All it takes...