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...secret that groups ranging from disaffected Tibetans to human-rights activists would try and take advantage of the Olympics to exercise some leverage for their causes when Beijing seemed most vulnerable. And yet, China's leaders appear to have been completely unprepared to respond to challenges with anything but brute force and harsh words...
...meanie and another who does good work as a cutie or victim, Oscar went for the latter. Marlon Brando's Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the major revolutionary performances in movies; it announced the arrival of the Method actor and the sexy brute in one galvanizing package. Yet Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger...
This is a deal about brute scale, about huge numbers. For example, if you squish Hotmail (Microsoft's e-mail service) and Yahoo! Mail together, they have 426 million users worldwide; that's compared with Gmail's paltry 90 million. But don't let those huge numbers distract you from two very small ones. First, the number 1: that's where Google stands in the search business and in the online-advertising business, the latter of which--unlike search or e-mail or instant messaging--actually has real dollars attached to it. Second, the number 0. That's how many...
...without attempting to be constructive, this campus discourse—of which Islamo-Fasicsm Awareness Week is but one manifestation—actively undermines the push for a just and equitable peace. It plays into the long-standing deception that peace can be achieved not by sacrifice, but by brute force; that our enemies today must remain our enemies forever; and that compromise and appeasement are equivalent terms.American college students must refuse to play into this destructive and counter-productive dialogue. They must do what generations of political leaders—Israeli, Palestinian, and American—have found unreasonably...
...author of four other novels, Yu has earned his reputation as a literary brute, whose characters constantly suffer at the claws of icy fate. He openly admires Faulkner's novels, and the grotesque absurdities in Yu's fiction wouldn't feel out of place in Faulkner's degenerate American South: a teen tries to rape a woman in her 70s to see what it's like, a man tries to pawn his dead father's frozen body, a drunkard drowns in a cesspit...