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...Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism, and diagnoses dire consequences from both. The film played like Fahrenheit 9/11, only cooler and way smarter. But it was shown out of competition, thus ineligible for a palm of any color. Cool is the temperature of the standard Cannes film. When a movie forthrightly engages the emotions - as Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born superbly did in its story of a boy lost at sea with a boatload of illegal immigrants - the critical consensus can be loud and derisive...
When boxers, wrestlers and Taekwondo contestants at the 2004 Athens Olympics were randomly assigned either red or blue uniforms, researchers found that red won more bouts. The authors of the study, published in Nature, speculated that the color might boost the testosterone of those wearing it or suppress that of their opponents--or both...
Which is a pity, because Indonesia has four characteristics that make it one of a kind: it is a secular and moderate democracy, as well as the largest Muslim country on earth. All this should make it America’s new best friend in our color-coded terror era, for the country stands on America’s side of the church-state divide, and is a prime example of Islam’s potential to adapt to the 21st century. A stronger relationship with Indonesia would send the most powerful message yet to the silent, global, Muslim majority...
...winners, one from San Francisco and one from Osaka, Japan, and made them work together to build something cool yet approachable--"inviting" was the key concept. To make sure everything was absolutely as pretty as it could possibly be, he also hired a company that specializes entirely in color schemes. "Serious color meetings went down," Allard informs...
...that Japanese consumers, having smaller apartments, are very space conscious.) It's also a little feminine--there's a hint of an hourglass figure. There are very few cables because the controllers are wireless. It has chrome accents, but it's mostly a creamy, calming off-white that the color geniuses call chill. And if you don't like chill, it has a snap-off faceplate, so you can customize...