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...Chechnya, a peace treaty with Russia has been signed, but skirmishes continue--the bloodshed has not ended with political accord. In Sergei Bodrov's film, "Prisoner of the Mountains," politics as usual leads to a horrific, numbing climax as absent-minded doctors send adolescents to war and tanks roll down hilly roads too beautiful for bloodshed. Based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, "Caucasian Captive," "Prisoner of the Mountains" brings the people, not the politics, of war to the dramatic forefront, capturing the paralysis and pain felt by families caught in the middle...
...that he was a slightly suspect virtuoso--the last of what had been, a fizzing Catherine wheel of talent at the end of the long display of Venetian genius that ran from the Bellinis to Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. Disapproval of Tiepolo was high-toned; his work did not accord with the moralizing grandeur of a later Neoclassicism, still less with the assumptions of Realism. It was rococo, compliant, theatrical and somehow frivolous. It celebrated a city in deep decline and praised a whole string of sometimes pretentious and reactionary patrons. And so forth...
...wake of the national debate over whether Ebonics is a language of its own accord or merely a dialect, what class could be more timely than Linguistics 80: "Dialects of English...
JERUSALEM: Getting Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu to agree on Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank may prove easier than convincing the Israeli Parliament to approve the accord. A bitterly divided Israeli Cabinet, torn by accusations by hard-liners that Netanyahu had given away everything and got nothing in return, finally agreed to withdraw troops from the West Bank, clearing the way for a Parliamentary debate Thursday. Debate in the Israeli Cabinet was intense, described by one Israeli official as "vociferous" and held amidst "tremendous tension." Early in the day, the entire session abruptly ended after Cabinet ministers received...
Under pressure from student leaders, the council's Finance Committee agreed to accept grant applications premised on merit, properly translated as ability to spend money in accord with the student interest. The extra $3,500 from the percentage hike has been combined with last year's unspent budget to forge a new merit-based fund. Previously, the council required that the finances of groups be near zero before requesting a grant from the communal ante that it controls. Now, organizations with healthy financial records which act in the student interest are eligible to apply. Ethnic groups like the Black Students...