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...ambitious failed thrillers, a list that includes Heist, which he wrote and directed, and an adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel, Hannibal. Yet, Spartan deserves a fair bit of praise for its occasional originality amidst the often tired trappings of the thriller genre. How many directors utilize slavery, spin, sultry sex and Soldiers Field (actually a likeness with a big red H) in a single film...
...Representative Robert Zoellick described the deal as "very excellent." After four weeks of legal scrubbing, the text of the Australia?United States Free Trade Agreement was released to the public last week; its thousand or so pages of trade legalese left readers wishing for the shiny simplicities of the spin doctors and politicians. In a perfect world, Australian Prime Minister John Howard would say to President George W. Bush: "Let's have free trade." Bush would nod, they would shake on it and alert the press. The agreement, with all the seals and signatures, would fit on one page...
Closed-door meetings. Reporters shut out of the debate on important initiatives. Spin doctors running interference between regular students and the officials who spend their money. To anyone who’s paid attention to the developments of the last few years, these modern accoutrements of decision-making at Harvard are sadly familiar. But the situation just described isn’t taking place in some administrative corridor of power, where it might by now be reasonably expected—it’s unfolding in Sever 113, the meeting-room of the Undergraduate Council...
...they are raising the stakes. Two months ago, the Taliban claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed a Canadian and a British soldier. Last week, just the day before Karzai declared the Taliban "defeated," five members of an Afghan nonprofit group were shot dead by suspected militants. In Spin Boldak, a dusty smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border...
...fantasy. "It is beyond any foreseeable technology to teleport a physical object like a pen, much less a person," says Gisin. He doesn't rule out, in the far future, the teleportation of a molecule. In the immediate future, there are other applications: last year, for example, a spin-off company of Gisin's lab called ID Quantique developed a quantum key that allows for communication--say, transactions between banks--that is completely inoculated against code-breaking attacks. Because the information is being transported in an unconventional way, it's impossible to track. The technology is being considered...