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...Lillian Ritchie ’08, the director of the current Loeb Experimental Theatre production “Lady Windermere’s Fan” that runs through this Saturday, a chance to get out of playing sports resulted in the discovery of acting, a pursuit she has been deeply involved with ever since. I was in seventh grade at an all-girls school, and our brother school was putting on a play and needed five girls to be in it, so instead of sports, which was really the only thing to do at my school...
This is not venality. It is the natural way of nations--the primacy of interests and the pursuit of power, which from the Peloponnesian Wars until the 20th century invention of collective security were understood to be perfectly natural...
...name--have been thinking about developing nuclear weapons. In all likelihood, he was referring to Egypt--which has a civilian nuclear program for its energy needs--and Saudi Arabia. The leaders in the Arab world have made due note of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's success in using the pursuit of nuclear power as a way to rally popular support...
Indeed, since the end of the cold war in 1991, not all the news on the nuclear front has been bad. South Africa, Ukraine and, more recently, Libya all willingly gave up nuclear weapons or the pursuit of them. Brazil and Argentina formally abandoned any thought of going nuclear. "I would also disagree with the basic premise that the pressure is all in the direction of going nuclear," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. The North Korea test, he says, will have only marginal effects on how other countries view their...
...writing and storytelling, has made CBS's new legal drama series Shark desirable to foreign broadcasters this season, commanding seven figures per episode, which was unheard-of even four years ago. "Every country has crime issues. And even though legal systems are quite different, it's more about the pursuit of criminals and preventing someone who is guilty of getting away with a crime," says Sony Pictures Television International president Michael Grindon. 20th Century Fox Distribution president Mark Kaner says he was dumbfounded when foreign firms scrambled to buy The Unit, a U.S. military drama. "But what the series does...