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...office in a quiet corner of the Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center fellow Meghan L. O’Sullivan is surrounded by photographs from Iraq. She points to one that was a gift from Gen. David H. Petraeus—a snapshot of the pair standing together. In another picture, Iraqi president Jalal Talabani gives O’Sullivan a kiss on the cheek at the UN General Assembly meeting in 2006. A third shows O’Sullivan briefing a serious-looking President Bush in the Oval Office...
...country's first President? Once we had white sales on the Washington's Day holiday; now we have blood-red fantasies of the killing of a fictional Chief Executive, told in a faux-real style that summons old memories of Nov. 22, 1963, and a more recent nightmare snapshot, from last Dec. 27, of Benazir Bhutto felled by bullets and bombs. Oh, it's nothing personal, current office holders. Not even political. It's just business - the movie business. If there's anything a mogul loves, on the screen and in the box office cash register, it's dead Presidents...
...said. “Do you want me to take over?” Theron kept everyone laughing, dancing, and teasing her buxom escorts as the car crept down Mass. Ave., flanked by bystanders hoping to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the passing motorcade. Thea N. Lee ’11 said she had seen Paris Hilton at an event held yesterday by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. But Lee said the Pudding’s Woman of the Year parade...
...social tensions that had been previously absent in movies, which Penn said was intended to echo the brutal assassinations of prominent leftist individuals, the rebellious youth and counter-cultural movements sweeping the nation, and the hostile oppositional beliefs so prevalent in American society at the time. Penn described a snapshot of the atmosphere of American society at the time that he was directing his movies. “We were living in a period when two Kennedys had been killed, Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, John Wallace had been paralyzed,” he said. “Violence...
...program, especially of the money paid out to the families of innocent Iraqi families killed in conflict, complain that the military does not proactively release these documents. Last year the ACLU filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act and received about 2,000 pages of information, a snapshot of part of 2005 and 2006, but it is by no means comprehensive or complete. The U.S. has been known to pay up to $2,500 for an "accidental" killing...