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...Early on the film signals that nothing is real. The Beatles appear running alongside the train they're actually riding to mock the stuffy businessman in their compartment. But Lester slips it in as a casual piece of business. The audience is now prepared for anything...
...conversation with him was like an encounter with Mr. Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This man who is responsible for so much of Colombia's barbarity possesses a glittering, dangerous lucidity. After seeing Castano on TV last August, wearing a casual white sweater instead of his usual combat gear and talking with great charm and simple logic, many Colombians began to think that in a twisted way his war makes sense. "The art of the guerrillas is to hide themselves among the civilians. That may give them immunity against the army and police but not against us," Castano...
Friends say, even absent scandal, his eighth year was never going to be a casual victory stroll. The guy loves being President, they say. "He was always going to do lots of Democratic fund raisers and push an aggressive legislative agenda, and he's always said that after Hillary had supported his career all these years, it was going to be her turn," says a former staff member. "Would he have done so many money events without Monica? Is he somehow working extra hard for Hillary? Who knows...
Among the photographs is a series that Sevruguin took when he had access to the Persian royal court. He was allowed to take formal portraits but also more casual, intimate pictures of the shah. These unlikely photographs were probably made possible because Nasir al-Din Shah, who reigned from 1848 to 1896, was a patron of photography and encouraged the craft in his country. One print is of a Western barber dying the shah's mustache. Here the European is serving the Easterner in a photograph by a native. It is here that it becomes clear that Sevruguin is more...
...statement makes perfect sense in the context of how many SAC members viewed the IOP and their place in it. When I was an associate in 1997 and 1998, the only members expected to make a contribution were the members of SAC. In fact, SAC discouraged more than casual involvement from any undergraduate. SAC discussions were secret, as were the conclusions reached at the meetings. The most desirable lunches and other meetings were reserved almost exclusively for SAC members. It is no wonder that most students drift away from the IOP after their freshman year...