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...toes. And because the story is so strong, Scorsese can elaborate on it without looking self-indulgent. One visual strategy: he plants X's everywhere, on the walls and in diagonal grouping of characters, to suggest the crisscrossing of Billy and Colin, and of the four lines of conflict (Billy and Colin and their respective father figures) that keep converging and colliding. Sometimes, in an obvious visual correlative, the X's are in pairs: a double cross...
...lites in Europe. "European politics," she says "is no longer a religion-free zone." Battle lines are being drawn that have not been seen for decades. They are not necessarily between Christian and Muslim. They are instead between secular Europeans and people of faith - any faith - and the conflict may well determine the future of the European state. Modern Europe has taken root in secular soil. The tradition of Voltaire and the Enlightenment valued humanism and individual rights, and many early socialist parties were vehemently anticlerical. By the early 20th century, France's Third Republic had formally decreed the separation...
...stay, the British-born activist lived with Sheikh Hilal Mohamed Abdalla “in this very remote outpost, the middle of nowhere really, in a tent.”Abdalla’s son was the head of the Janjaweed, funded by the government in the recent conflict, de Waal says.“I was living in their household where the leaders of the Janjaweed were being, at that time, schooled,” de Waal recalls.After completing his thesis, de Waal returned to Sudan multiple times.In 1989, the night before he was to start working...
...Uganda, at a film screening and discussion event Wednesday night. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard African Students Association (HASA) and uNight, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in northern Uganda. Since the initial 1986 rebellion, Uganda has seen constant conflict between the government and the rebel forces which reorganized as the Lord’s Resistance Army. The conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead and 1.2 million displaced. UNight co-founder Daniella L. Boston ’05 began her presentation on the situation in Uganda by screening a short documentary...
...slave to the regional goals of both Iran and its next door neighbor, Syria. Arms will continue to flow through Syria to Hezbollah if UN troops are not given the explicit mission of monitoring the borders to prevent continued weapons shipment.Psychologically, Hezbollah cannot be allowed to emerge from this conflict with the perception of victory. As demonstrated by Saturday’s rally, Nasrallah is claiming this summer’s war as a victory for Islamic extremism. If Hezbollah is permitted to emerge intact and reassert its influence, Israel’s deterrence power will be shattered...