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...gets a chance to meet them, Iraqis will give Obama plenty to think about - facts and opinion that should inform his views on U.S. military and foreign policy. And they would do that without a single PowerPoint presentation...
Kagan urged community members not to share the e-mail with others in order to avoid publicity that might lead to "copycat threats." She said that "[t]hreats against the Harvard community and its members are not uncommon," but that she wanted to inform faculty and staff "out of an abundance of caution...
...Lebanese-Druze murderer serving a life sentence in Israel. The deal was brokered by a senior German diplomat with experience in similar prisoner exchanges, sources say. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also confirmed on Sunday for the first time that the kidnapped soldiers had indeed been killed, but failed to inform the soldiers' long-grieving relatives before going public with the news - a "gaffe," as one of the soldiers' family members described Olmert's negligence...
...realizes the full extent of its troubles in the later telling rather than as they happen. The world watched as Rwanda convulsed into genocide in 1994. But for many, especially in the U.S., it wasn't until the publication in 1998 of Philip Gourevitch's book We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, that the full horror of what had happened was brought home. By the same token, the film Blood Diamond, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, brought to wider attention the misery of Sierra Leone's civil wars...
Apparently, because for its first 30 min., the new Pixar astonishment WALL?E has virtually no dialogue. Nor does it offer a Star Wars--like print crawl to inform viewers that this is Earth 800 years from now. The mechanical critter who is the film's hero can speak only in electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow...