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...with interest in you and never appears tired of the exchange: he is the middleweight champion of charm. His best punch is his wry self-awareness. While Clooney lives in one of those huge houses in the hills of Los Angeles with a giant, swinging electronic door at the foot of his driveway, he says, "I don't want to get into this behind-the-fence world. I'm afraid of getting isolated from society." When asked how he'll make sure that doesn't happen, he pauses thoughtfully and replies, "I have people to do that...
...West could rise sharply if dialogue collapses. Stopping short of declaring Iran in formal breach of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires strict international supervision, the IAEA has issued scathing criticisms of Iran's past failures to inform it of suspicious facilities, activities and materials and its chronic foot dragging on cooperation. European negotiators remain skeptical that Iran will stick to its word. That's not surprising when even some Iranian clerics contacted by TIME questioned the validity of Khamenei's religious ruling barring nuclear weapons...
Unfortunately, history tells a different tale. Schindler’s List hit theaters in March 1994—just as State Department officials were honing their foot-dragging techniques so that America could shirk its duty to intervene in Rwanda. No doubt Hotel will generate Oscar buzz. But will it increase ordinary Americans’ awareness of genocide? The outlook is grim. But George and Rusesabagina have a track record of defying all odds...
...disrupt their big dates, Fitzpatrick has a romantic side of his own. Last Valentine’s Day, he serenaded girlfriend Liza K. Barber ’05 with a rendition of “I’ll Be” and presented her with a three-foot, homemade, heart-shaped card...
Some of Trager’s friends were skeptical of the pledge from the less-than-intimidating 5-foot-7 Queens, N.Y., native. “Eric emulates John Wayne’s heartfelt patriotism, but the resemblance ends there,” Alyssa T. Saunders ’04 writes in an e-mail. Trager first met Saunders when she was tabling for women’s groups at a Hillel when he cockily asked her, “So where’s the chauvinists’ club...