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...question, The Hurt Locker is a near perfect war film and an excellent choice for Best Picture. Bigelow's job wrangling this orphan project into shape, and her shot-by-shot mastery of the story, should be considered no less impressive than her swaggering hero's effectiveness in defusing bombs on Baghdad streets. The same goes for Mark Boal's winning screenplay, based on his reporting for a Playboy nonfiction piece about IED squads (which really should have put the script in the Best Adapted Screenplay category). (See pictures of James Cameron's special effects...
...cope with a situation when those ideals are brought into question? Europe might want to see progress on democracy, but one member might choose not to make that a priority. What if, say, Germany strikes business deals with Russia? There is no difference to how Germany approaches Russia and any other member state's approach. Russia is a key player in our relationship. Russia is part of the Middle East "quartet." We also have a strong trading relationship. We would like Russia in the World Trade Organization. We have regular summits and dialogues with them at different levels...
...early days for the new team, of course. Van Rompuy and Ashton could surprise their detractors. "We should be ambitious," Ashton told TIME in late January. But for all that ambition, Europe is no closer than it ever was to answering Henry Kissinger's famous question: "Who do I call when I want to call Europe?" So what explains the gap between Europe's stated ambition in foreign policy and its performance? And how can that gap be closed? (Read an interview with Catherine Ashton...
Around this time every year, a crucial question looms over campus. It descends upon uncertain freshmen, who confer and conjecture about it with their blocking groups. It provokes some upperclassmen, hearts aflame with House spirit, to bristle at the smallest slight towards their Houses. Everyone wants to know but claims to know one thing—which of Harvard’s 12 residential Houses is the best...
...however, the most important question about the election is not so much the result but the behavior of the participants. Do they accept the results, can they form a government quickly, and can that government move forward on an agenda? If Iraq's leaders can't work out a compromise without Vice President Joe Biden - the Administration's point man on Iraq - making several trips to Baghdad, the chances are slim the Iraqi political system will be able to stand on its own once the U.S. leaves...