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...Brown won the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in a special election in Massachusetts - and that could potentially invalidate the U.S. Copenhagen pledge and throw the continuing international climate talks into further disarray. "Unless [the U.S.] is serious about its own commitments, there will be a very serious impact on the talks," said Rae Kwon Chung, South Korea's ambassador on climate change. (See the world's most polluted places...
...director Haden Guest, the festival drew its inspiration from another HFA series celebrating John Ford, the director of classic American westerns like “The Searchers.” When analyzing Ford’s influential and inspirational work, the directors of the HFA considered his considerable impact upon Bogdanovich. A devoted cinephile, Bogdanovich venerated Ford and released the tribute “Directed By John Ford” in 1971. After considering the connection between Ford and Bogdanovich, the HFA decided that an exhibition of Bogdanovich’s films would provide a perfect complement to Ford?...
...course, nobody expects China to suddenly see the error of its ways and liberalize completely just because Google decides to check out. Yet there may still be tangible ways in which Google’s departure could make a big impact on Chinese society. It is all too easy to underestimate how much Chinese citizens actually know about the doings of their government, and Google’s disagreement with internet censorship will not go unnoticed, even if government officials continue to insist that there is open internet in China. Google’s actions therefore could help bolster human...
...helplessly with sympathy, empathy, pathos. They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...
...current event-publicizing model in which student groups spam as many list-serves as possible with event blurbs isn’t working. It’s annoying, ineffective, and limited in potential impact. Instead, in order to streamline event-publicizing on campus, University administrators should commit more resources to this problem and work with the Undergraduate Council to offer a new, more user-friendly online events calendar...