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...less than two dollars a day. Issues in poverty and development confront every country. (The number of impoverished women in the U.S. alone increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2004, reaching more than 14 million.) Great efforts are also needed to reach the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, which serve as a benchmark intended to significantly improve the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015. There are few issues more worthy of a sustained commitment from Harvard to try to make a difference through our teaching, research and engagement in the world. Development...
...Zohar's elusiveness dates to its appearance in the Spanish region of Castile around 1280. Written in Aramaic, a language Jews had not composed in for centuries, the book was attributed to a great rabbi of a millennium earlier. But in fact, in the 1930s scholars determined that it was penned by one Moses de Leon and his associates in the 13th century...
...stars, who helped turn Mel Brooks' The Producers into the first smash theater hit of the millennium, are one of show biz's top money teams. In this tale of mismatched roommates, Lane will play Oscar, the slobby sportswriter, while Broderick tackles the fussbudget Felix. There have been rumors that they may occasionally switch roles...
...giallo suspensers of Italian director Dario Argento, Perfect Blue deftly translates the live-action shock style into lurid-luscious anime visuals while mulling the notion that celebrity is a stroke of good luck punishable by death. Have creepy fun with Perfect Blue; then move on to Kon's Millennium Actress, another, gentler mix of suspense and movie lore. It's an anime tribute to live-action Japanese films, from delicate family dramas to the Godzilla epics of a devastated Tokyo...
SENTENCED. AHMED RESSAM, 38, the so-called millennium bomber who plotted to attack Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the new century; to 22 years in prison; in Seattle. During the sentencing hearing, Judge John Coughenour rebuked the Bush Administration, noting that "we did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny [him] the right to counsel...