Word: geoffrey
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...military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is as great a mystery as the place itself. Escape is a long shot. The base is a prison, and a jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks. Getting out legally doesn't seem much easier...
...groups are trying to carry on by using local personnel. (The Red Cross has 600 in Iraq.) But it's becoming harder to function effectively. Geoffrey Keele, spokesman for UNICEF's mission to Iraq, says, "We're still implementing emergency programs, but we've lost our ability to expand them." In Afghanistan, says a senior U.N. staff member, "We are asking ourselves if we are approaching a threshold beyond which it may be impossible to operate...
Like a prime Sturges comedy, this one has plenty of ripe character parts. Cedric the Entertainer is a private eye who's all tenacity, no tact ("You want tact, call a tactician"). Paul Adelstein serves nobly as the comic foil; Geoffrey Rush as a blithe, then ferocious cuckold; Julia Duffy as a rich divorce; Jonathan Hadary as a purring aristocrat-for-hire; Irwin Keyes as a hit man with a deadly wheeze...
Besides Adelman and Liao, the finalists are Shaka Joaquin-Doyle Bahadu ’04, Zachary A. Corker ’04, Elizabeth C. Drummond ’04, John Paul M. Fox ’04, Geoffrey S. Harcourt ’04, Hunter A. Maats ’04, Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04, Marc D. Manara ’04, Joseph H. Mujalli ’04, John-Paul R. Munfa ’04, Nii Amaah K. Ofosu-Amaah ’04, Shira S. Simon ’04, Jessica J. Tang...
...Geoffrey C. Upton ’99, who graduated from HLS in June and served as the chair of the reunion committee, deemed the reunion a success, despite a smaller turnout than the 150 alumni expected...