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...over South Asia like none the world has ever seen. The worst disaster in memory has evoked the greatest outpouring of charity. "Just as we see the power of nature to destroy, we have seen the power of human compassion to build," said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. The pledges coming in to the U.N. for tsunami relief already surpass all the relief money received in 2004 for the top 20 disasters combined. The politics of pity is never pure, so there was a kind of global competition in generosity, especially after the U.S. increased an early...
...rebuilt." At the Waha oil field, hundreds of kilometers into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s." Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown regularly to the Essider terminal and to Waha's desert oil fields, trying to discern how to re-enter...
Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...
...years since, Mackinnon has seen her academic life fold into her extracurricular life, with her studies focused on the things she feels passionate about. Her mentor and advisor, Hazel Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Peter E. Gordon, writes in an email that in her academic work, “[Mackinnon] has a quiet intensity to her, and there is a discerning, moral disposition that characterizes all of her thought...
...estimated 800 collegiate, professionally sponsored and unaffiliated runners from the length of the East Coast descended on the Gordon Track and Field in Allston for the sprawling meet, which outlined some of the Crimson’s strengths, gave a few rising stars a chance to shine, and filled the program’s coffers...