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...world that helped create Osama bin Laden. I think that?s what you start to see over the course of the movie [is ]what pushed people toward admiring or wanting to follow an Osama bin Laden: dictatorships in Middle Eastern countries oppress their people, extreme poverty and lack of access to health and education, people who feel like they?re being oppressed by their own countries. Michael F. Scheuer, who?s the former head of the Bin Laden unit of the CIA, said something very smart and eloquent, which was, what these people realize is rather than going after their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morgan Spurlock in Search of Osama | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...away from the Foreign Service. During this time, “a lot of people who are the kinds of people [to go into Foreign Service] will have other opportunities,” Howard says. Howard also believes that the decrease in public service numbers is due to a lack of interest and recruiting at KSG, adding that most students with a particular interest in the Foreign Service generally attend schools geared towards those careers, such as Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Selling Out | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...course, the idea is to encourage consumers to bring reusable canvas totes to the store instead of using paper—in Shropshire’s case by mailing 15,000 of them to his constituents. But it’s not the hemp bags’ lack of availability that makes them unpopular—IKEA sells them for 59 cents. Consumers just aren’t convinced that the personal and environmental benefits of using them are worth the inconvenience of carrying ten canvas sacks for the week’s groceries. If they were, a ban wouldn?...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Unsustainable Environmentalism | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Languages of the Americas, knocked on several doors to find his sponsor and future adviser, archaeology professor Gary Urton. Similarly, Alison H. Rich ’09, a special concentrator in Dramatic Arts, found prospective advisers busy with other special concentrators and graduate students.As a result of this lack of initial guidance, current concentrators have had to take on an unofficial advising role. “I have been contacted by like 10 freshman and sophomores who have wanted to take a look at my application, so it is a continuing process,” says Elizabeth A. Kolbe...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: You're So Special | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...recent years. The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy was already on the case - even before nude photos of First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy were auctioned in London last week to a Chinese investor for $91,000. France's Culture Ministry has announced measures aimed at reversing the general lack of interest among the French in buying art - a deficiency some fear is slowly bleeding an enormous vein of national culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Art for the French | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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