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University students staged a sit-in at Berlin's historic City Hall last week, blasting whistles and shouting slogans and holding out until they were dragged away by police. In London, students protested in Parliament Square. And for weeks now in Paris, thousands of striking students have filled the boulevards, marching with signs and banners and chanting "all together!" Europeans are used to seeing students on the streets pushing for radical change, but these young people want to preserve the status quo. They're protesting government plans to reform their higher-education system - plans that in some cases place...
...apparently radical reforms the French government had proposed for a system that's as profoundly in need of change as the Middle East is in need of peace. I have taught in five nations on three continents, at universities ranging from Harvard to Haifa, from the Free University of Berlin to Wichita State, from Budapest to Boise. But nowhere, proud and pleased though I am to be a French citizen as well as an American one, have I encountered a system of higher education as inefficient, chaotic, perversely bureaucratic and dysfunctional as the French. An American professor in the French...
Directed by Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire is the story of two angels who descend to earth to watch and listen in on the lives of lonely Berliners. The two angels seemingly float through Berlin streets, focusing for a few moments on a slew of ordinary people and their emotions: despairing, weary, optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent...
...Wenders’s works in both media, he has focused on landscapes on the verge of obliteration or demolishment, from pre-unification Berlin in Wings of Desire to abandoned cities of the American West and decaying houses in Cuba in his new exhibit, “Pictures From the Surface of the Earth: Photographs by Wim Wenders,” which is being shown at the James Cohen Gallery in New York City through...
...Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions. The duo's defiance is reminiscent of the U.S. going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate, isn't it? People may disagree on the relative merits of these cases - a Parisian or Berliner might point out that the stability pact has been plain bad fiscal policy, just as a Washingtonian might argue that U.N. mandates tend to be too little, too late. But in both cases, the rules are enshrined in international covenants, and steamrollering them showed that the same sort of hauteur...