Word: segmenting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...address to Labor delegates at their annual gathering, Clinton devoted a lengthy segment to Iraq. After thanking Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support with Operation Desert Fox in December 1998—a joint Anglo-American assault launched when Hussein threw out weapons inspectors—Clinton praised him for “trying to bring America and the rest of the world to a common position” over the past few months. Despite his kind words for Blair, Clinton stressed that a pre-emptive military strike “should always be a last resort...
...fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September 11. The conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 min. 9 sec. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable in the world's reaction to the event. In Iran (a segment directed by Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to her uncomprehending village school kids. Sean Penn helmed the Manhattan segment in which an old man (Ernest Borgnine), grieving over his wife's death, gets the blessing of sunlight in his dark apartment - because...
...Haier's halo is slipping. In July the company sued Yicong Chen, 25, a Beijing-based securities analyst for a government-owned company who had written a critical research report. Haier then announced a 45% decline in first-half profits, largely because of weak sales of air conditioners--a segment that Chen's report covered. Chen nonetheless agreed to a court-supervised apology for the "distorted content" of the report. Michael Jemal, 37, president of Haier America, says the home office's p.r. problems have not affected U.S. sales, which he says are up 200% so far this year...
...conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 minutes and 9 seconds. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable in the world's reaction to the event. In Iran (the segment is directed by 22-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to schoolkids who think the worst calamity is when the village well overflows. In Burkina Faso (the director is Idrissa Ouedraogo), some boys spot a man who looks just like Osama bin Laden and scramble to capture him for the $25 million ransom. The Japanese...
...alumnus and parent of an Harvard Business School alumnus, I was proud to see a segment of the Harvard community argue for an end to investment in firms that help maintain violence and racism in Israel...