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...viewed as refreshing: Given the fact that the Israeli-Palestinian debate in America is usually so one-sided against Palestinians, the support within the Harvard community for Picture Balata was surprising. It is rare in this country, where criticizing Israeli policies is easily demonized as being “anti-Semitic,” that a forum for an unequivocally pro-Palestinian viewpoint receives much attention. Hopefully, this turnout is not merely indicative of a chance to hear about the conflict first-hand, but rather of a new willingness to hear the “other side?...
...premature mid-life crisis. Ryan’s specific circumstances are odd enough to catch attention, but not so outlandish as to obscure the message behind his quest for satisfaction from personal and professional pursuits. The style of the script conforms to the accepted indie formula of anti-establishment themes that focus on the vices of materialism and the corporate ethos—couching criticism in a green mindset. Fox’s direction strengthens the connection created between the actors and the viewers. The film does not feel overly shaped or artificial, which is important as the film strives...
...first caught Oldboy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Oldboy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
...best I know, this was the first time that any news account mentioned the procedure that other practitioners would later rename "intact dilation and extraction." It didn't make much of a stir at the time. But when the anti-abortion movement picked up on it in the mid-1990s and attached its own label - "partial birth abortion" - it became the rallying cry with which opponents began reversing many of the gains that the pro-choice movement had made over the previous two decades. This week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure, which is a move...
...just a local issue. Coca-Cola learned that lesson in 1999, says Dezenhall, when several Belgian children reportedly were sickened after drinking the soft drink. Soon afterward, similar reports appeared in France and other European countries. Coke responded slowly, he says, and underestimated how quickly Europe's simmering anti-Americanism would snowball into a p.r. disaster. "When outrage takes over, there is no emotion more powerful than the urge to place blame," Dezenhall says. "Coke found itself the beneficiary of an entire continent's wrath for a nonlethal problem...