Word: branch
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...from the audience at the Harvard Film Archive as children from refugee camps spoke of their homeland over nostalgic music.‘OCCUPATION 101’In a festival like this, politics cannot be easily left at the door—this fact is particularly true for the branch of the festival that takes place at Harvard. Student groups involved in the organization of the festival such as the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East, the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and Justice for Palestine were asked to choose the themes they preferred to be covered here on campus...
...second term technically threatened his bid to stay in power and had many Pakistanis scratching their head over what was going on in their country's power politics. The last few months have been rocked by controversy over Musharraf's eligibiity even as he feuded angrily with the judicial branch of government. Friday's ruling appeared to be another round of that tit-for-tat - though tempered by another long-running drama, Musharraf's budding alliance with his old nemesis, the exiled Benazir Bhutto...
...spacious patio and pool is de rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo's almond trout, duck breast...
...profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting social development along with economic expansion. "Party officials are in all earnestness trying to deal with labor abuses, environmental degradation...
...harmless, and at worst as an attempt to undermine the upcoming UN climate negotiations in Bali at the end of the year. But the good news is that if Bush is unlikely to move on global warming between now and the end of the term, there is another branch of the government that just might. Currently there are several pieces of climate change legislation floating around Congress, and with the Democrats in power, there's a chance that one might pass. "You're actually starting to see Congress talk seriously about commitment to climate change," says Annie Petsonk, international counsel...