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Harvard doubled its lead with 8:30 to play in the first period. Rookie center Jillian Dempsey won a faceoff, passing the puck off to Farni...
...full of fighting kites is symbolic. The multiplicity of explosive Afghan factions, competing interests and networks remain so complex and hazardous that honest students of the country's recent history are eager to point out the limits of their own knowledge. It is all daunting. As John Dempsey, Senior Rule of Law Advisor for the United States Institute of Peace, says, "there are things I still find confusing about this place, and I've been here seven years." (Read a story about Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner...
...about the involvement of foreign governments, often generated and implemented by rotating officials and soldiers much less experienced, goes beyond daunting to disheartening. Especially in light of a realist idea shared widely among internationals and Afghans alike: "Foreign governments aren't here simply because they care about Afghanistan," as Dempsey put it. "They are here also out of their own perceived national interests...
...While piracy has become a common scourge off the coast of Somalia, an attack in a region blanketed with "sophisticated surveillance and extensive navies and coast guards is almost unheard of," says Douglas Burnett, a maritime partner at the U.S. international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. It is all the more suspicious given the relatively low value of the listed cargo on board. "The cargo on the ship is timber," he says. "No one would steal a ship for timber, especially in European waters. So perhaps the lumber could be a cargo cover. Was it drugs? Was it nuclear...
...producer, grossed a burly $87 million at the North American box office. McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past earned $15.3 million. The totals nearly replicated those of last year's first May weekend, when Marvel's Iron Man took in $98.6 million to $14.8 million for the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor. Shrugging off tepid reviews, Wolverine proved that Hugh is huge, movie-starwise, as long as he carries cutlery between his knuckles. In its first two days' release, it easily outperformed the total domestic take of Jackman's Australia, which made just $50 million here, though...