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...story of the Koan fakes is one of many in Nayan Chanda's Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. While most of us consider globalization to be a purely contemporary phenomenon - conjuring up images of multinational coffee chains and multilingual call centers - to Chanda it is as old as humanity itself, and as complex and unpredictable. It "has worked silently for millennia without being given a name," writes the author, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review now at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. And it moves through "a multitude...
When Lt. Col. Eric Durr, a member of the New York State Army National Guard, left his Albany, N.Y., home in April 2004 bound for Iraq, his wife placed a framed photograph of him in the dining room. Two years later, when she deployed to Iraq also with the Army Reserves, Durr placed a photo of her, Lt. Col. Heather Brownell, in the same spot. For their kids, Steve, now 13, and Stephanie, 16, the war in Iraq is more than just flickering images on a television screen. To them, it means a life of constantly shifting family dynamics...
...body of work that imposing, that serious, was bound to inspire parody - and did, long before Colbert. Allen, for example, had written a burlesque on The Seventh Seal in The New Yorker. Sometimes whole movies were tongue-in-cheek tributes to Bergman: George Coe and Tony Lover's 1968 American short De Duva (where "water" is the subtitle for the mock-Swedish "aitch-two-oh-ska") and the 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The spin-offs might be serious, they might be farcical, but all paid tribute to Bergman's unignorable influence...
...Bergman critical consensus also evaporated. His films were dismissed as stage-bound, not real movies because they talked so much, and morbidly full of themselves. As the cultural climate changed, he didn't, and the fashion that Bergman had started and flourished in came back to bite him - and then, worse, to forget him. Hardly anyone (except this one) still thought of him as the world's greatest filmmaker...
...wife to meet with Gaddafi--and to warn that Sarkozy could not see the legitimacy-starved Gaddafi on Sarkozy's most recent trip to Africa if the prisoners were still detained. That diplomatic carrot, along with promises to normalize E.U.-Libyan relations, got the medics on France's Bulgaria-bound presidential jet--alongside Cécilia--some 36 hours before Sarkozy's state visit to Tripoli began. There is an economic motive for France's power play as well: among the topics explored was how French companies could develop the Libyan economy better than their U.S., British or German rivals...