Word: belief
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...fact is, the women-in-peril films are like most other recent U.S. movies, from Pearl Harbor to In the Bedroom: they are revenge fantasies, playing on the understandable but infantile belief that every atrocity can be overcome by a righteously violent response. But life doesn't work that way, and neither did most of the best old movies. Casablanca and Gone With the Wind did not end happily for their heroines; the frustrations of duty and destiny intervened. In the end, the new women-in-peril films betray a simultaneous naivete (that the heroine will triumph) and cynicism (that...
...Arab anger is sure to follow. In the past, most of the rants and threats turned out to be just that - empty talk. But some Western diplomats and Middle East analysts worry that, this time, the Arabs might mean it. The new element, they say, is a hardening Arab belief that despite years of peacemaking, Israel will never allow an independent Palestinian state and that the U.S. will support Israel no matter what - and the Arabs cannot stand back and do nothing. "It smells a little like May 1967," says an Arab diplomat, referring to the Arab mood...
...Peace Buried in the Rubble That Was Jenin The fallout from Israel's offensive in the Jenin refugee camp seemed certain to jeopardize peace efforts, despite Israeli assurances that the operation was aimed at rooting out potential suicide bombers. Describing conditions after the two-week siege as "horrifying beyond belief," U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larson said Israel had "lost all moral ground" in the conflict. But U.S. President George W. Bush defended Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace," saying Israel was meeting a timetable to pull back from Palestinian territories. With the army still encircling...
Despite Cozzens’ belief in the inherent theatricality of the space, Hilles’ exterior to date has never hosted theater. Suzanne Kemple, Associate Librarian at Hilles, has coordinated the use of the space with Hyperion. Employed at Hilles for the past twenty-two year, she recalled, “I have been here since 1980, but nothing [theatrical] has ever been done in the courtyard before...
Among the changes would be an explicit statement of the Faculty’s belief that study abroad is inherently an important part of the undergraduate experience—whereas currently, students who want to study abroad must prove that their program would be a “special opportunity...