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...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...
...that [economics] professor [N. Gregory] Mankiw and I are doing together editing the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity....By soliciting the papers and working with manuscripts, I feel like we have an opportunity to draw younger scholars into doing empirical research on economic policy in a way that can inform economic policy. I’ve also enjoyed writing a monthly column for the Financial Times that gives me a way to raise arguments and try to open up debate in the public-policy sphere because the columns are reprinted all over the world in a variety of different languages...
...Buttner’s friend and fellow MUN club member, recalled the journalistic flair she brought to her life outside the classroom. While running a Security Council simulation her junior year, Buttner decided that instead of briefing the participants on the fictitious international emergency, she would inform them by pretending to be a reporter interviewing a fomenter of the crisis...