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...establishing Western-style democracy, there is no need for U.S. troops in the Shi'ite south or Baghdad. We would leave behind a civil war and an Iran-dominated south, but that outcome would be no different if we were to stay with the current force levels and mission. One overriding interest in Iraq, however, is still achievable: that Iraq's Sunni areas not become a base from which al-Qaeda and its allies might attack the West. With the security that comes from having their own region, the Sunnis might deal more effectively with the terrorist threat, since continuing...
...though another group, Student Friends of Harvard University Art Museums (SF HUAM), already arranges gala events and lectures for its undergraduate members at the museums, leaders of the organizations say there is little competition between the two. “We’re both part of a comprehensive mission to bring as many Harvard students into the museums as possible,” SF HUAM President Alexis M. Kusy ’07 said. SF HUAM has a $45 annual membership fee for students, but OUR HUAM events are free. The group is a committee of Harvard University...
...eyes of many in Hollywood, Paramount-where Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone publicly blamed Cruise's "inappropriate behavior" for the disappointing box office returns of Mission: Impossible III-is no longer such a place. Under Cruise/Wagner Productions' unusually generous Paramount deal, the studio paid out as much as $10 million a year in overhead and development. When Cruise began jumping on Oprah's furniture in rapture about fianc?e Katie Holmes and finger-wagging about psychiatry on the Today Show, "he was embarrassing the studio," Redstone says in December's Vanity Fair. Not to mention costing Paramount, the outspoken executive estimates...
...American Zoetrope and Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dreamworks SKG (now owned by those baddies at Viacom), Cruise's UA will, apparently, attempt to nurture a creative environment for filmmakers. In an ever-more bottom-line-conscious era of movie-making, it sounds like an impossible mission. But then, we hear this guy has experience with that sort of thing...
...adding that the WTO is not a perfect model but a way to “harness globalization” and to find “some force in ensuring legitimate decision-making.” He also said that he thinks the “core mission of the WTO” is to open markets and open world trade for the benefit of all people, but that such a mission should not be pursued at all costs. “WTO members have the right to deviate from market-opening obligations, in favor of values of public morals...