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...titular “Queen,” Elizabeth II, is unable to apprehend the country’s grief in the wake of Princess Diana’s death. Even when the extent of the country’s passion for Diana becomes clear, Elizabeth assumes that hiding her family and her emotions is necessary if she is to keep the country’s respect. In fact, her actions increase the Prime Minister’s power and almost instigate the dissolution of the monarchy. She no longer understands her country and is supplanted...
...follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world. And that leaves out of the discussion all the time they need to read what they care to read, see what they need to see at the movies and on television - to experience the materials that have at least the possibility of nurturing their imaginations and whatever...
...told The Crimson. “There’s a reason behind it.”The incident prompted a visit from Edward J. King, then-governor of Massachusetts, who announced a statewide anti-arson campaign. But despite a $1,000 reward posted to apprehend the culprits, Cambridge authorities could not uncover any information as to who might have set fire to the House.—Staff writer M. Aidan Kelly can be reached at makelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...dead and buried, but plenty who shared responsibility with him for some of the worst horrors of modern Europe are still alive and free. The former Serb leader was not in his grave before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague called for a renewed effort to apprehend the two most wanted fugitives from the Balkan wars: Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. "Now more than ever I expect Serbia to arrest and transfer [Mladic and Karadzic] to the Hague," said Carla del Ponte, the tribunal's chief prosecutor. So far attempts to arrest...
...concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people and ideas. Those who characterize Summers as an undeserving victim of “political correctness” fail to apprehend the real significance of his truncated tenure...