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Schama participated in a similar crossover television show for “Britain,” and is currently presenting for a BBC series entitled “The Power of Art.” If reviews of these shows are any indication, Schama looks poised to remain a so-called “Superdon,” in the illustrious company of Harvard’s own Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, for quite some time...
...this was, to put it bluntly, pure nonsense. As reported in the BBC and shoved onto page A20, “World in Brief,” of The Washington Post, Israeli troops had entered Gaza on June 24 to kidnap two civilians, Osama and Mustafa Abu Muamar, the two sons of a Hamas member and political activist. The breach of Palestinian territory came after two weeks of Israeli air-strikes in which 14 civilians were killed. No doubt, the Palestinian militants on June 25 felt they were defending their state, reacting to Israel’s aggression in kind...
...common knowledge, North Korea is just the latest in a long line of nations to develop nucleear technology. Here, the BBC shows exactly who's got the bomb, how many weapons they have, and what their capabilities are of turning the planet into smoldering radioactive...
...Barenboim’s lecture series at Harvard was entitled "Sound and Thought." Expanding on (and sometimes repeating) his autobiography, "My Life in Music," and a series of lectures he delivered for the BBC this spring, Barenboim’s concerns ran from how to break the silence at the beginning of a symphony to what it means to be human...
...BBC viewers know, Morton and Frears have created a niche industry in Tony Blair docudramas. The first, The Deal in 2003, was about the agreement between Blair (played there as well by Sheen) and Gordon Brown that birthed the New Labour Party. That was a TV film; The Queen was made for movie theaters. I hope it finds a wide and receptive audience - for beyond the tattle, it tells a parable of political wisdom: knowing when to listen to the people, and when to lead them...