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...funny. But it also makes her seem a little dull and shallow. The story strives so hard to make her unconflicted that she lacks the conflict a protagonist needs. Call Girl didn't need to make her a cautionary tale, but it might have benefited from a broader scope that told us more about her fellow escorts--those who don't, say, blithely name-drop Luis Buńuel flicks. In the Spitzer case, reporters eventually tracked down his regular date, "Kristen," an aspiring singer with a MySpace page. The drab details we glimpsed--would-be American Idol ends up with...
TAKING TO THE STREETS More than 100,000 people protested in the South Korean capital on June 10 amid an escalating backlash against President Lee Myung Bak's move to end a ban on imported American beef. Lee's April decision sparked the protests, which have grown in scope to include his broader policies toward Washington and prompted his Cabinet members to offer their resignations...
...money is also expanding the scope of microfinance beyond small loanmaking. As institutions compete for customers, they are rolling out other services. In Mexico, Citigroup has written more than 1 million life-insurance policies in conjunction with Compartamos, and in India it offers customers savings accounts and ATM access in partnership with microfinancier BASIX. "Not everyone will be an entrepreneur, but most of us have to save for something," says Bob Annibale, head of Citigroup's microfinance unit. Microfinanciers around the world are racing to offer the first real micromortgages. "That we are now talking about creating financial systems that...
...amendment acknowledging the ideals and the gaps in the 1990 legislation. Incredibly, many express the faith that this legislation, which had been formulated to balance the rights of speakers at Harvard against those of disruptive protesters, had all along been sufficient to guarantee free speech generally on campus. The scope of the legislation, however, was far removed from the phenomena of disinvitation, politically biased tenure deliberations, and donor boycotts. Moreover, the laissez-faire principle of the earlier legislation had done nothing to remedy situations in which the most popular, most confidently-voiced, best-financed, and best-administratively-supported positions...
...Meanwhile, the steady revelation in scope of America’s systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques” (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...