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...Ponti, he had the drive, the devotion and the clout to turn her into a top international star, Her Oscar for Best Actress in 1962, as the ravaged war mother in Vittorio DeSica's Two Women, which Ponti produced, was proof of his and Loren's mutual mission - their shared triumph...
...Inspector O has a simple mission: sit on a hill at dawn and photograph a car traveling the long, ruler-straight road connecting Pyongyang with the border to the South. But this is North Korea, where even the easiest task is complicated by penury-the camera he is given has a dead battery-and fraught with politics. Returning to the capital, O is unexpectedly grilled by two senior intelligence officials with a keen interest in the car he didn't photograph. Becoming embroiled with the secret services is a dangerous proposition for any North Korean, even a policeman...
...power. In the past year, China has established itself as the key dealmaker in nuclear negotiations with North Korea, allied itself with Russia in an attempt to shape the future of central Asia, launched a diplomatic offensive in Europe and Latin America and contributed troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. With the U.S. preoccupied with the threat of Islamic terrorism and struggling to extricate itself from a failing war in Iraq, China seems ready to challenge--possibly even undermine--some of Washington's other foreign policy goals, from halting the genocide in Darfur to toughening sanctions against Iran...
...strategy for the Bush Administration. The U.S. has to stay the course and clean up the mess it has created; otherwise it could leave behind a pan-Arab war. The demons that George W. Bush unleashed in Iraq had been held at bay for decades. Has he accomplished his mission of finding wmd or brought freedom, democracy, peace and progress to the Iraqis? The situation in Iraq is worse than those in Bosnia, Somalia and Congo combined. As for the Iraqis, it has now been acknowledged that although life wasn't the best, they were, and would still be, better...
Design School representatives wrote that “the ideal president will integrate the arts into Harvard’s mission...the school feels marginalized because its role is very different from other Harvard graduate schools, and the arts are not always seen as vital to Harvard’s mission...