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...current] crises—debt, war, climate??have the same thread running through them,” Gore said. ”When you pull that thread, all those threats begin to unravel...
...Instead, it just lets us know that there’s a whole lot out there that we don’t know. This isn’t a history of the Central Intelligence Agency—most of the figures interviewed only discuss the post-9/11 political climate??but doesn’t lack a narrative backbone. The filmmakers gracefully walk a fine line between exploring the abstract elements of secrecy and the real consequences of disclosing secrets. As one interviewee tells us, after the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut...
Although “We Own the Night” is set in a stark, drab New York City of 1988, it is unmistakably a product of our current social climate??a loud glorification of government-backed violence and a raucous endorsement of a “do whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact...
...Patrick said in a statement. Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics Leonard I. Zon, a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s executive board, said on Wednesday that Patrick’s push for a policy reversal indicates an important “change in climate?? in the state’s view toward stem cell research. But he said the change will not lead to a huge influx of new embryonic stem cell lines. “This policy may be more relevant in the future when we are studying specific diseases that require the formation...
...White House under John F. Kennedy ’40 chose not to build on these successes, Hernández said. And Kennedy simultaneously employed confrontational strategies with this low-key engagement, he added, poisoning the diplomatic climate. Modern-day restrictions—a possible consequence of this uncooperative climate??nearly kept Hernández from making it to Harvard in the first place. The status of his visa was mired in legal limbo up until shopping period, so much so that Hernández stepped off his plane and right into his first class. During the speech...