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...volume, best-selling Chinese edition of Brothers was published amid great fanfare in 2005 and 2006, and constituted the first major work in a decade from the author chiefly famed for To Live - a depiction of revolutionary society adapted for the screen by Zhang Yimou. This new English translation of Brothers excellently captures its beauty and high farce...
...Indignant and self-righteous responses to real or perceived provocations, indeed, have remained a constant fixture in the Harvard multicultural dialogue. S. Allen Counter, the gregarious and garrulous head of the Harvard Foundation, is himself prone to overwrought bursts of sentiment on such occasions. Amid the infamous “Quad incident” of 2007, Dr. Counter denounced the “apartheid techniques” of the Harvard University Police, who, responding to calls, had checked the IDs of Black Student Association picnickers and allowed their field day to continue unmolested. Dr. Counter is not above retaliatory insinuations...
...spoke of the whole country as a single team, evoking a patriotic spirit that has brought the nation back from the brink of collapse before. "Even in the most trying times, amid the most difficult circumstances, there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency and a determination that perseveres, a willingness to take responsibility for our future and for posterity," he said...
...admonition reflect the paradoxical role of the European Commission. Often described as the engine of European integration, the Commission also is responsible for disciplining individual member states that violate E.U. rules. The rules in question are part of Europe's Stability and Growth Pact set up in 1997 amid German concerns over budgetary discipline in countries about to join the euro zone. Designed to discourage governments from destabilizing the euro zone by borrowing too much, the rules limit national deficits to no more than 3% of gross domestic product. Countries that go over that limit can face fines. (See pictures...
...themselves. On Feb. 19, 2008, Iraqi Body Count, one of the several contentious projects to record violent civilian deaths, reported 37 dead. On the same date a year later, as I arrived, it reported 9 dead, plus 17 bodies discovered in a mass grave for a total of 26. Amid whatever change has come, or is coming, these were the numbered dead...