Word: short
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bogus, can cheer the return of Mickey Rourke. And not because it's nice that he seems to have turned his life around and focused again on doing what he once did so well - but because the best writers and directors might have to put Rourke on the short list of actors up for great roles. The man from the past has a future again...
...Adding political infighting to the global financial crisis may not be what Canada needs to bounce back from recession, but it signals that the country's return to prosperity will be more difficult that most imagined just a few short months...
...That leaves the international community with two unappealing options. The short-term fix is to try to neutralize the pirates by pursuing them on land. Hence a U.S. draft proposal authorizing military action inside Somalia currently before the U.N. Security Council. But sending troops into Somalia is fraught with danger, as the American soldiers of Blackhawk Down, and now the Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda...
...Task Force on the Arts emphasized a greater engagement with the practice of art as well as the scholarly appreciation of it. While its ambitions may be economically constrained by university budget cuts and losses, we praise the report's affirmation of the arts, and hope that some short-term proposals are achieved without great delay. Harvard’s endowment has deflated, hiring freezes have been announced, and departments are attempting to rein in their budgets. This might bode ill for the visionary aspects of the report, and the long-range goals must take community collaboration into account...
...with the support of the Harvard community, they should be big meets, especially once February rolls around [for the Heptagonal Championships].” Co-captain Becky Christensen wasted no time automatically qualifying for the NCAA Championships with a personal-best 1.85-meter jump. Despite taking a short approach—seven steps instead of the usual 10—the jump earned her a victory in the high jump. “It felt really good,” Christensen said. “I’ve never really taken full advantage of my full approach...