Word: legacyism
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Will it happen? U.N. Security Council resolutions force the ICTR to complete its cases by the end of 2008, and then shut down. (Appeals can be heard through 2010.) To date, however, the ICTR legacy is uncertain. In 13 years, the Tanzania-based international court has spent more than $1...
The founders are retired (although very much looming on Paris' Left Bank), and since 1999 the company has been owned by the Gucci Group, a division of one of France's largest conglomerates, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Managers and designers have come and gone, yet none of them have been...
Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacityâ?...
The flap erupted in June, after the Defense Ministry announced that it was going to bar filming at the Bendler Block. A key reason behind the decision, according to officials at the time, was Cruise's affiliation with Scientology. In Germany, where the government provides assistance to organized religions, a...
A cross-straits war, however, is hardly imminent. For its part, Beijing cannot risk any embarrassing military action in the run-up to the Olympic games next August. And Taipei-based observers say that the referendum is less a declaration of independence than a political ploy by Chen to bolster...