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...romance. Eckhart's best moments are the ones in which we see Burke psyching himself up to glad-hand his fans. But problematically, even after we've seen the "real" Burke, the snake-oil salesman with the sharky grin is more convincing. So it's far more satisfying to focus on the supporting actors, the people who try their hardest to make this cutely maudlin movie bearable...
...Nancy Folbre, an economist at the University of Massachusetts who served on the panel, says a focus on growth can be helpful. It's just that we need to think of the concept differently. "Growth doesn't have to mean more stuff," she says. "Isn't that the point of the report, in a way? That growth doesn't have to mean growth...
...would be impossible to come to, he said. Harvard representatives sat nearly silently at the back of the room, with Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director of community relations for Boston, interjecting that they had “looked at this session to focus on the community wide planning process,” not specifically Charlesview. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Health care is a vital issue, but climate change is just as important. It does not behoove us to focus on one to the detriment of the other. Opponents of the bill have focused on the costs that Waxman-Markey will impose on them and not on its potential to move the United States into a truly advanced energy economy that would generate trillions of dollars in benefits. If we want a world that it is worth having health care in, then we must not let opponents of the bill take control of this issue. Evidence suggests that the benefits...
...first shots in what became known as the war on terror were fired by Somalia-based militants when they blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998, killing 213 and 11 people, respectively. But Afghanistan, and later Pakistan, became the focus of the militant Islamic threat after al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden moved himself and his main base of operations there in 1996, after he was expelled from Sudan, eventually to perpetrate the attacks of 9/11. (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...