Word: panels
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...understandable that Bush talks about the commission headed by Baker and former Representative Lee Hamilton the way a child who can't wait for Christmas talks about Santa Claus. Bush mentioned the commission four times in his press conference last week. The President opposed the creation of the panel last fall but eventually came around, in part at the urging of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Worried about whether the White House believed in the commission from the start, Baker insisted on meeting with the President before taking the job and insisted that Bush personally ask him to take...
...made some of these points at a Venice Film Festival panel on foreign films in the U.S. And every one of my colleagues made another point: foreign films may be dying in theaters, but they are surviving, thriving, soaring on DVD. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for The Chicago Reader and DVD reviewer for cinema-scope.com, noted, there's a wealth of international cinema out there, including films that never play in American theaters or film festivals - and it's all on disc, to be rented or bought, either online or at the more comprehensive video stores...
...assortment of rogues, who might be willing to help stabilize Iraq in return for a piece of the country's future: Sunni Baathist rebels and Shi'ite Islamists, Iranian spooks and Arab strongmen. That, at least, is one option currently under consideration by the Iraq Study Group, the panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker, whom Rice prodded Bush to appoint in part to clip Rumsfeld's wings...
...Hufstedler says. HCARAR hopes to recruit two Yale bands by tapping into networks of friends, contacts at both the student radio stations and the recently created creative licensing project called the Antennae Alliance, and, of course, Facebook.com. The two-hour event will be judged by a panel of students from both schools, along with a tie-breaking judge from a local music business to keep the competition fair. The winner will receive not only a gift basket assembled by local music businesses, but what both football teams are fighting for inside the stadium: bragging rights. Plus, the last guitarist...
...Delhi state government, and stoned policemen and passing vehicles. The cause of the traders' anger was a February Supreme Court ruling instructing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to "seal" - close or demolish - 44,000 stores operating illegally in Delhi's residential areas. The Court established a three-member monitoring panel to ensure its orders were enacted, and after months of legal back and forth the "sealing drive" finally began last week...