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...handful of oil-dependent and -producing nations); and the U.S. vs. the Rest of the World (a schism exacerbated by the Bush administration's unapologetic unilateralism on environmental and other global affairs, underscored by the President's absence from the event, which was universally perceived as a snub). Even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict became a recurring, if improbable, theme at an event focused on crises far more profound than the battle over Mideast real estate, with supporters of the two sides clashing regularly in and around Summit forums - much to the irritation of the organizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Summit Founders, But There's Hope | 9/3/2002 | See Source »

...Brokaw [is] NBC's Mr. Clean, an experienced journalist with the snub nose and boyish good looks of the class president, the boy most likely to succeed...Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer...[His] problem is certainly not laziness. Married to his college girlfriend, a former Miss South Dakota, he was NBC's White House correspondent for three years. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Manhattan. He often jogs four miles in Central Park before he leaves for the office at 5 a.m., and recently he has taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 22 years ago in TIME | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...case with their films, Ring’s Peter Jackson and Mind’s Ron Howard are sure things. Baz Luhrmann’s boldly excessive vision for Moulin Rouge assures him of a nomination as well. Despite Robert Altman’s snub from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), I’m confident that his multiple honors for Gosford Park (from the Globes, the AFI, and the New York critics, among others) are a sufficient bellwether for an Oscar nod. Ridley Scott’s DGA and AFI nominations for his command of Black Hawk Down?...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oscar Time: And the Nomination Goes to... | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

...SUNDAY AFTERNOON At 2 p.m. two minivans and a pair of open-sided white Land Rovers mounted with machine guns pulled up outside the fortress gates. From the minivans jumped nine American special-operations men wearing wraparound sunglasses and baseball caps and carrying snub-nosed M-4 automatic rifles. The Land Rovers disgorged six British SAS soldiers armed with M-16s and dressed in jeans, sweaters, Afghan scarves and pakuls, the distinctive woolen hats of the Afghan mujahedin. The Americans and British quickly convened a conference with the Alliance leaders. "I want satcom [satellite communications] and JDAMS [guided munitions]," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...rejection has long since disappeared. As they attend important board meetings or travel around the world, I doubt that many recent Harvard graduates sadly ponder their exclusion from a Saturday night party at the Fox in 1997. Nor do these successful alumni sit around and cry about how this snub affected the rest of their lives. The final clubs simply don’t play a large role in the formation of successful students like they used...

Author: By Maggie Morgan, | Title: Final Clubs Are Not 'All That' | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

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