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...Changeling is an epic, fact-based story - depicting sadistic, systematic corruption in the municipal government, the police department and the medical establishment of 1920s Los Angeles - that has the novelty of being virtually unknown today. The script, by TV writer-producer J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah), juggles elements of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, The Snake Pit and any number of serial-killer thrillers. But at its center are the heartache and heroic resolve of a woman who has lost the person she loves most and is determined to find him, dead or alive, against all obstacles the authorities...
...another financial crisis is raging, this time globally, and as Sabanci Dinçer watches it unfold from her elegantly furnished 27th-floor office in the heart of Istanbul, she inevitably has a feeling of déjà vu. But this time, while there's trepidation, there's also hope. The Turkish banks that survived that earlier crisis emerged from it much better capitalized - and more heavily regulated - than their peers in the U.S. or Europe. Today, thanks to surging investment and exports, the Turkish economy is double the size it was in 2001, and the nation's financiers...
...with any activity at Harvard, the Ceramic Micro-Enterprise Project must compete for sutdents’ time. “One of the challenges is competing with other student groups, because Harvard students are busy,” says David J. Tischfield ’09, who is helping with the development of the project...
When Richard J. Goldstone arrived in Rwanda in 1994, charged with the task of setting up a war crimes tribunal, the country had been so “smashed” by the recent genocide that “it was very difficult to get people to come and work there.” By the time he returned from his last visit to the country in 1996, the trials had just begun. This work, along with his role in South Africa’s transition towards democracy and other achievements in international law, earned Goldstone, a visiting professor...
...next few days. FAS IT declined to comment on any aspects of the e-mail changes until a formal announcenemt is made in the next few days. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese contributed to the writing of this story. —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...