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...film in the world of soccer hooliganism, but I think the tendency to turn to violence as means of conflict resolution is universal. Here in America, after being attacked, our first response was to go and kick some other country’s ass. War has higher stakes than hooliganism, but it’s the same animal instinct in the human race to turn to violence. We have to question...
This administration was willing to wade through hell and high water for the Bolton nomination because of personal friendship (and, one suspects, just to spite the rest of the world) but has flinched from every actual ideological conflict. Bush has gone five years without casting a veto and caved on almost every domestic argument (excepting tax cuts) from Social Security to Medicaid reform—which metamorphosed from a serious reform empowering individuals to just another entitlement program. He hasn’t seen a spending bill or an expansion of Federal powers that he didn’t like...
...where the new chief sees synergy, others see conflict of interest. NCI supports research on treatments reviewed by the FDA. "How can you wear both hats and be true to the missions of both organizations?" asks Merrill Goozner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Von Eschenbach also sits on the board of a nonprofit cancer advocacy group called C-Change--along with execs from major drug firms...
...case brought by a state prosecutor against the world-renowned novelist Orhan Pamuk in August that generated outrage beyond the country's borders. The charge against Pamuk - that he insulted Turkey's good name by discussing the mass killings of Armenians and Turkey's Kurdish conflict in an interview with a Swiss newspaper - carries a possible three-year sentence. (In practice, Pamuk is unlikely to go to jail and the publicity surrounding the case has embarrassed the government.) "No country can shoot itself in the foot," said Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, ruefully, "like Turkey can." The charges were brought...
...main thread running through “Forging the New” is conflict: between East and West, between old and new, between representation and abstraction; and the styles represented are largely depictions of individual artists’ reactions to these tensions. Utsumi Nobuhiko’s “Innerscape: Manifestation,” for example, propels traditional Japanese ink across a water-covered sheet of paper using a powerful dryer—combining an old medium with a new technique. Meanwhile, “Early Spring” by He Huaishuo features a classical Chinese subject matter...