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...director Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08 to “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place” made it a coherent work. Jean Giradoux’s 1935 play poses a compelling historical scenario: What if Trojan hero Hector took drastic measures to avert the Trojan War before it began? Having personally translated the script from its original French, Chase-Levenson powerfully conveyed the subtle nuances of Giradoux’s dialogue through his directorial choices. These choices worked well artistically, although Chase-Levenson made a minor slip by allowing his cast to overact when...
...bodies pile up - and land with a sickening squishiness when they slide down the chute from Sweeney's parlor to the basement -the more sensitive may avert their eyes and turn from the movie. But this is gore with an agenda. Having seen where Sweeney came from, and the artistry Burton and Depp bring to his tale, we must keep watching. Horror has its own panache, its internal, infernal beauty. And nothing we see is as terrifying as the scar's on Benjamin Barker's soul when he devolved into Sweeney Todd...
...mechanism exists for avoided deforestation. That nations are not compensated for protecting their forests has been a huge gap in anti-climate change efforts, and one that has to be resolved if the world is ever to achieve the kind of large-scale reductions in carbon emissions needed to avert catastrophic climate change. "Forests are the elephant in the living room," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Project and a forestry advocate. "Powerful - but unseen and unrecognized...
...advances that would have been virtually unthinkable 18 months ago - but they're still not anywhere near enough. To avert the worst consequences of global warming, we'll need to all but eliminate carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and that will require a wholesale change in the way Americans (and eventually everyone else) use energy, work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin...
...index creators insist their device is not intended as a "name and shame exercise," but rather as "an incentive" to do better. "Benchmarking works through peer pressure to motivate actors to improve efficiency, correct deficiencies in the policy framework and possibly even avert damage to a country's reputation," write the HRI report authors. After all, these countries have all agreed on the principles on which they're being assessed. As Annan tells reporters in London - he's now president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva - "Only promises kept are promises that matter...