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Upon his arrival, Lentz said, “My goal is to ensure that Harvard’s art museums not only remain vital to the University, the community, and the field, but that they continue to play a leading role in museum thinking and practice...
Judge David Tatel hinted at the nature of this case when he wrote that he might have granted the reporter’s request, had the leak been “less harmful to national security or more vital to public debate.” Surely prosecutors will not decide what leaks meet this standard, and hopefully judges will not, either. To say that freedom of the press exists ad hoc, in cases that meet some mutable standard of harmlessness and vitality, is to say that it does not exist at all. Any damning exposé of government policy could...
...grave-faced central bankers who serve as his backing crew, it's a community service obligation in an era of policy transparency. While the economic illiterates on the committee are no match for bureaucrats at the top of their game, a public show of knowledge can often be as vital as a contest - and more illuminating...
...beginning of the Reagan Administration, Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence...
...shampoo, fruit and vegetables, and even DVD players and color TVs to market in Kim's socialist paradise. Train cars also trundle over, carrying oil destined for use in North Korea's million-member military. For Kim, the economic link to the outside world that the bridge symbolizes is vital. Beijing knows it?and so does Washington...