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...well as smart big ones) could find a wide audience if promoted properly. After leaving longtime corporate parent The Walt Disney Co. last year, the provocative pair have struck out on their own once more with a new boutique media concern simply called The Weinstein Company. TIME?s Jeffrey Ressner spoke to the brothers about their year-old enterprise...
...Army and a Sunni militant group called the Omar Brigade, illustrates the U.S.'s dilemmas. The neighborhood had suffered months of killing between Sunnis and Shi'ites before U.S. forces found a solution: to make the murders stop, keep the cops, who were overwhelmingly Shi'ite, out. Lieut. Colonel Jeffrey Peterson, the U.S. troop commander for Mekanik, says, "Whenever we would talk to locals about [the violence], they always implicated the national police as starting it. I could never prove it. But the bottom line was--whether it was true or false--the people did not trust the national police...
...real-world service project and pass rigorous oral and written subject exams. Courses offer an international perspective, so even a lesson on the American Revolution will interweave sources from Britain and France with views from the Founding Fathers. "We try to build something we call international mindedness," says Jeffrey Beard, director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "These are students who can grasp issues across national borders. They have an understanding of nuances and complexity and a balanced approach to problem solving." Despite stringent certification requirements, I.B. schools are growing in the U.S.--from about...
...When Jeffrey Kwong ’09 offered the microphone to Ellen C. Quigley ’07 at last week’s Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential debate, he did so in order that a woman might make a single substantive comment during the entire debate...
...garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent entrepreneurs, including an October trip to Nebraska to meet America’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, and a meeting last April with NBC Universal CEO Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86, who is also a former Crimson president. —Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...