Word: resistance
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...late-night television: “Harvard University is launching a new clothing line called Harvard Yard....Of course the clothes are really hard to get into, unless your father wears them first.’’ Even the Chronicle of Higher Education couldn't resist, and published a blog post called: "My Khakis Went to Harvard...
...President said the problems in Darfur, a vast western province inhabited by both Arabs and Africans, began when rebels attacked government offices and security forces. "Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal and moral obligation to resist those militants," he said. Mistakes have been made, he conceded, but the commanders responsible have been tried and punished. "The U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan mistakenly bombed a wedding and killed 147 civilians. But you cannot say that the U.S. President should be tried for this because he is the Commander in Chief of U.S. forces...
...Moving Pictures, Schulberg slammed Fitzgerald's early novels and B.P.'s movies, charging that both were "stricken with a double vision and a double morality, glorifying the society they were so heatedly exposing, exposing the society they could not resist glorifying." He wrote the character of Sammy Glick, his novel's screenwriter antihero, as such a crass schemer, appropriator of other men's work and trampler of decency that no one could possibly mistake him for a role model. Yet Sammy became just that for many a brash entrepreneur in Hollywood and on Wall Street. Schulberg later said...
...problems, the French government, which owns 90% of the company, demanded an internal review earlier this year. French media reports speculated that Lauvergeon could get the heave-ho as part of the evaluation, which looked at finances and strategy. The government was also reportedly upset that Lauvergeon continued to resist pressure from the Elysée to meld Areva with private French engineering company Alstom and private construction giant Bouygues to create a national nuclear megacompany...
...Arab goodwill gestures. The Israelis see Iran as a higher priority than talks with the Palestinians. The White House officially views the two issues as being on separate tracks but says the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a key issue whose impact on the region reinforces Iran's ability to resist international pressure...