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...Sticks alone will not be sufficient. As history reveals time and time again, the greatest force for stability, growth, and a decrease in hostility toward the West is greater integration into the international systems of politics and economics. A plan including gradual lifting of sanctions and reestablishment of diplomatic relationships with Tehran encourages compliance with inspection requirements and heightens the stakes for Iran if it defaults. It also promotes a more positive relationship with Iran going forward and opens the door for cooperation on mutual objects like preventing the emergence of failed states in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...between the two of them. What is not expected is that the obvious tension will be broken just the next day by Happy’s frank question: “Do you have any interest in having sex with me?”The film’s greatest strength is its ability to invest the everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting Happy is one of limited scope. His job, as he describes it, involves selling less than 10 mattresses a month; his social life consists entirely of family dinners with his sleepy 80-year...
...project at the Tribeca Film Festival because of the fellowship? Not exactly,” Megan says. “But did we give him a boost? I think we did.” Chazelle admits, however, that even with ADF funding, his limited resources presented one of the greatest obstacles to the production process. He and his team had to account for expenses, including the high costs of film stock. “As a young filmmaker, you wind up learning how to be resourceful. We had to fundraise every step of the way and rely on the generosity...
...Even allowing for the distortion-in-the-service-of-simplification that comes naturally to politicians who spend too much time appearing on Fox News, excuse me for being mildly shocked that such an ignorant comment could encapsulate the views of one of the two major political parties in the greatest country in the world. Clearly, the purpose was misleading the more than 50 percent of Americans who aren’t sure if global warming is a manmade phenomenon...
...Hawass is no stranger to hyperbole. Known for sporting an Indiana Jones style hat and his habit of ending up in front of cameras, the 61-year-old native of the Nile Delta town of Damietta is the government-appointed custodian of Egypt's monuments and the greatest promoter of its mysteries. Archaeological expeditions don't take place without his agency's sanction (and more than a few foreign Egyptologists have been frozen out of work as a result); any sensational discovery is invariably announced by him. "In Egypt," Hawass writes on his personal website, "archaeologists are bigger than movie...