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...obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day job was doorman at Grauman's Chinese theater. The visitors represented an alliance of outer space planets and they were on a mission: to warn us earthlings to mend our warlike ways. Klaatu wanted to convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing all the Earth's mechanized powers to a halt for a few minutes. If that warning didn't take...
...encapsulated within its title. “Frost/Nixon” tells the story of David Frost (Michael Sheen), a British comedian, who sets out to interview disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon (Langella). What begins for Frost as a publicity stunt quickly grows into something more—a mission to extract from Nixon the confession he never gave to the American people. “Tricky Dick,” on the other hand, hopes to use this appearance on national television—his first since his resignation—to rehabilitate his reputation. Squaring off against...
...mission of the Harvard Scholars at Risk Program is to afford Harvard fellowships to those who experience persecution in their own countries to give them...a safe intellectual environment,” said Jacqueline Bhabha, director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies and a creator of the program...
...fighting under the same limitations as the British, Canadian, Danish and Dutch forces currently holding the fort, which means they will be spinning their wheels. And that raises a long-term question crucial to the success of the Obama Administration: What are we doing in Afghanistan? What is the mission...
...know what the mission used to be - to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and destroy his al-Qaeda command. But once bin Laden slipped away, the mission morphed into a vast, messy nation - building effort to support the allegedly democratic Karzai government. There was a certain logic to that. The Taliban and al-Qaeda can't base themselves in Afghanistan if something resembling a stable, secure nation-state exists there. But the mission was also historically implausible: Afghanistan has never had a strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions...