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...attention. Environment Minister Cristina Narbona, seated in the audience Saturday, was impressed with Stiglitz's discussion of education as a key stimulus for economic growth. "To hear him say that gives us incentive to improve our proposals even more." And in a speech closing Saturday's meeting, Labor Minister Jesús Caldera responded to Caldicott's impassioned critique of nuclear energy by promising to take Spain's remaining eight reactors out of service "when they reach the end of their useful lives...
...movie, written by Eric Roth, recounts the history of the CIA from World War II through its involvement in the Bay of Pigs. It is told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite...
...afternoon, an Apache returns to blast away with missiles at the canyon again, but the surviving Taliban have disappeared. Eventually a Chinook arrives, first picking up the coalition special-forces unit and then the soldiers from Delta Company. Back at Kandahar air base, the operations commander, Colonel Bertrand Jes, is satisfied with the mission. It isn't clear yet whether Hannan, the prime target, was killed in the bombardment. But as Jes says, "The Taliban had safe havens up in the mountains. They were cocky at first. Not anymore. We've destroyed their support structure." Yet many U.S. officers...
Case Western decided to open Recovery House after the number of students evaluated for substance abuse at the college jumped 69%, from 29 in the 2000-01 school year, to 49 last year, an all-time high. Says Jes Sellers, director of Case's university counseling service: "These students need a safe place to live where threats to sobriety can be balanced by the collective strengths of a community in recovery...
...hours after bombs exploded on four Madrid commuter trains, killing 191, then Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a press conference that Spanish police and his Ministry had "no doubt that the [Basque] terrorist gang ETA is responsible for this attack." But last week the chief of the police investigation, Jesús de la Morena, told a very different story. Just 90 minutes before Acebes' statement, de la Morena testified, he informed top Interior Ministry officials that he "was skeptical that ETA was responsible ... We didn't know who it was, but we all doubted...