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...controversy to be resolved, people are going to have to be made to feel uncomfortable. Discomfort comes from humanizing the “other side” and acknowledging it has its own context for the way it thinks, regardless of whether you agree with...
...Holocaust studies, there is a school of thought that says to explain is to forgive. I won't go that far. But we must stop explaining killers on their terms. Minus the clear context of narcissism, the biographical details of these men can begin to look like a plausible chain of cause and effect--especially to other narcissists. And they don't need any more encouragement...
Hollywood's marketers have become tremendously efficient at getting their core audience to see their big movies. They don't need critics for that. But critics have a larger utility: to put films in context, to offer an informed perspective, to educate, outrage, entertain. We're just trying to do what every other writer is doing: making sense of one part of your world...
...cancer’ of Hezbollah proved as deadly as misapplied chemotherapy for a cancer patient.” This line and others like it are not only out of place, but completely unnecessary. Still, Norton presents a solid history of the creation of Hezbollah, the context in which it developed, its current place in the Middle East and the world, and his predictions for its future. For those looking for a background of this prominent group, “Hezbollah: A Short History” provides a thorough yet terrifically brief 200-page overview. If only more classroom text writers...
...context of this quaint Ivy League program with its history of disappointment, Amaker’s resume becomes all the more astonishing...