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...Ten years ago, 192 nations came together in New York City to reaffirm the promise of freedom from want. They established the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and pledged to achieve them by 2015. These eight goals address the root causes of global poverty: tyrants like infectious disease, hunger, and gender inequality. Now, five years from the deadline, none of the goals are on track to be accomplished. These goals, once beacons of hope in the fight on global poverty, are becoming broken promises to people across the world...
...total population. By contrast, Swiss initiatives require signatures from about 2% of the population to trigger a national vote. And in an age when musicians from Coldplay to Lily Allen have millions of followers on Twitter and Facebook, collecting 1 million names could be a snap. (See ten tech trends...
...wonderful acting on the part of the main characters and the intense depiction of the entire account very much outweigh the film’s faults. For example, early in the film, Mussolini menacingly barks, “It’s ten past five, I challenge God!” This powerful performance, and the many others like it, ensures that this film will haunt viewers long after they have left the cinema...
...enthusiasm about the weather must have boosted its own performance as its three teams took first, third, and fifth respectively. But while the host school took home most of the honors, the Crimson was still able to sneak into the top five, taking fourth of the ten teams behind Tufts 1, Boston University, and Tufts...
...Roughly ten percent of students currently enrolled in the Freshman Seminar Program have opted for seminars that include some form of art-making, according to program director Sandra F. Naddaff...