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...condition for any non-emergency aid. However, the World Bank can achieve much single-handedly, not least by encouraging other donors to adopt similar positions. In fact, the rights-based approach, which was explained at the conference last week, depends on a general extension of these principles. According to Peter Uvin, a writer and professor at Tufts University, the new strategy is “more political, more principled, and more structural.” The overall goal is to permanently consign the link between development aid and strategic self-interest?...
...success in his most challenging character. Harlan’s emotional layers could be completely lost if a less adroit actor had portrayed him. Instead of considering him to be two-dimensional or unbelievable, the audience accepts and empathizes with Norton’s representation of Harlan, the overblown Peter Pan persona and walking anti-anachronism. Norton’s confident development of character transforms ridiculous and surreal elements into plausible and lamentable events. Bottom Line: The over satiation of artistic elements and the negligible editing of “Down in the Valley” choke some...
...apply for independent student-group status next semester. “We want to get this campus to engage in a dialogue, no matter personal beliefs on actual politics. Separate the military from the controversy,” Nosal said. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps member and panelist Peter H. Brooks ’06 said that for him the event was about fostering a greater understanding of the military for both Harvard students and the wider community. “There is a huge civil-military divide,” he said. “Especially here...
...keep everyone honest, we’ve decided to hand-pick our successors for this column. The competition was thick like Serena Williams’ booty, but we’re proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Bell Lap Contest: D.A. Wallach ’07 and Peter Martinez ’07. This Midwestern duo impressed us with their insightful guide to juicing graduate students, which revealed that the term “TF” originally stood for “Titty Fucking.”And so, that?...
Between her time as Barbarella and Hanoi Jane, among the Oscar wins and spousal losses, Fonda kept journals. Using those diaries along with media interviews and biographies of her famous family members (such as father Henry, brother Peter, and niece Bridget), she wrote her memoirs. Of course, the 22,000 pages of FBI files (kept on her because of her involvement in Vietnam) didn’t hurt either...