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...Darfur looks remarkably the same. Though only one subject in the film is openly disappointed, the news reminds us every night why his frustrations are justified. Darfur, now, is still in trouble. In highlighting his subjects’ achievements, Braun makes the ongoing crisis a little too easy to forget. But he leaves his audience no excuse for inaction. After all, if “regular guys” and movie stars are standing up, why aren?...
...week Eivind Reiten is unlikelyto forget. On Oct. 1, the oil and gas arm of Hydro, an Oslo-based energy-and-metals company he was running, completed a $36 billion merger with Statoil, its beefier Norwegian rival, creating the world's largest offshore energy operator. Five days later, Reiten hosted his country's King and Queen in Nyhamna, a third of the way up Norway's west coast, at the official launch of a record-breaking gas-production and -processing project forged by Hydro to harness gas from 75 miles (120 km) away under the Norwegian...
Changing clocks is also confusing and costly. Millions of dollars of productivity are lost because people forget to change their clocks and miss important events...
...Fifteen to contemplate “changes in the governance of the University.” In turn, the Committee of Fifteen begat the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, to deal with incidents like the April 1969 riots that started all the trouble to begin with. And lest we forget the stillborn President’s Emergency Consultative Committee, which was declared to be literally too big (and heavy) to meet on the second floor of University Hall, which had been damaged by the student occupation. It only ever met once...
...Class of 2008 has sentiments like Gates’s on their minds as they prepare to embark on their post-collegiate lives, and the pressures seem almost impossible to balance. Forget figuring out what we’re going to do with our own lives; now we have to save the planet as well. The thorny questions of morality raised in speeches like Gates’s are most readily accessible through the concern at the forefront of every senior’s mind: Where will I be working next year...