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...clear that Peking University takes his chess very seriously. Upon arrival, the Harvard contingent— Daniel J. Benjamin, a third year economics grad student, Marc R. Esserman ’05, Dan E. Goodman ’07, Daniel H. Thomas ’05-06, and Albert C. Yeh ’07—was greeted with a 30-foot banner advertising their match. Because the Harvard team was formally invited by the Chinese government, they were treated as quasi-celebrities. Peking University’s president gave an opening speech that reflected the magnitude...
...skirmishing remains verbal. From early on, critics of the exemplary theory have held that it had no particular use for Christ's divinity. Any virtuous martyr might do. One wit remarked that the Bible could have ended with the death of Abel, a decent enough man. Calvinist Evangelicals like Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never has been." Others note...
...guess,” she says playfully. “I bet you’d be wrong,” replies Hoge, and she is. It’s not Pearl, but rather Leland’s expat father Albert, who, having abandoned his family to live and write in France, returns after the murder. Though the motivations of Albert, portrayed with steely sullenness by Kevin Spacey, are unclear, there are allusions that he may smell material for a new novel...
...duties of executive producer, appears only briefly in the film, but for many viewers leaves the most memorable impression. “Nobody really says anything negative about Leland,” Hoge says. “But a lot of people say, ‘Oh God, Albert, what a terrible person,’ and I feel like ‘No, not at all,’ and I sort of get where he’s coming from...
Hoge admits to feeling a deep connection to all three of the male leads —Leland, Pearl and Albert. “I think they sort of form this triangle. They’re all to some degree writers, that’s how they interact with the world. It’s various levels of this idea, of what’s more important and what do you value more, art or life, and the relationships that you have, and issues of exploitation...