Word: affair
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However, I focus on one issue that Mr. Tong dismisses, one that should never escape international attention: Tibet. Tibet is China's most sensitive issue, and potentially most troublesome. Tibet, primarily, is neither a "racial problem" nor a "regional matter" (read: internal affair). Tibet is an illegally occupied country (despite the lack of official recognition by the U.S. State Department), a money-losing colony. The Tibetan issue has been ignored and tippy-toed about at the highest diplomatic levels for fear of "offending" China. Yet the seemingly intractable problem of Tibet, and the regained independence its people desire, should...
...Catholicism, even thinking about taking vows. Their relationship is not improved when Jefferson starts courting a married woman, the painter Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi), and deteriorates further when Sally Hemings (Thandie Newton), one of Jefferson's slaves, arrives from Virginia and they begin their notorious (though historically unconfirmed) love affair...
There is plenty of material here for a gripping story about a man whose habits of life and belief are being challenged in all sorts of ways. But essentially the movie settles for pretty pictures. The love stories are presented with gingerly discretion. Jefferson's affair with Maria is all arch, twittering banter in an antique style; nothing in it elevates their pulses (or the audience's). Hemings is presented as a wise, if untutored, child, more of a nursemaid to Jefferson than a believably sexual being. It's hard to see what he saw in either of them...
Bennett progresses through school, falling in love with algebra and studying math on his own at home. He talks with his rabbi. In high school he has an affair with a drama teacher. Then he goes to college, learns a lot of physics, befriends another physics student who turns into a drug addict, goes to graduate school, learns more physics, finishes his doctorate and marries an artist. The marriage deteriorates, and the book ends...
...punishment more severe. Burnham suffered more than cuts and bruises; he needed surgery to repair a serious fracture to his eye and says he still suffers from double vision. And he was a prospective student, a guest of the College. This situation was no longer a purely internal affair--it tarnishes Harvard's image before the eyes of the rest of the world. The Ad Board maintains that it deals harshly with such cases...