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...That's especially so in this context: a "foreign" film that's paced like a Jerry Bruckheimer action spectacle, one that keeps stripping its leading actress and placing her in one sexually charged situation after another, while challenging the essential good guy/bad guy conflict of almost every movie ever made about "the good war." It discomfits us and makes us dubious about the filmmaker's intentions...
...Sanjaya phenomenon, while amusing, highlights the biggest challenge to reality shows that depend on a public vote for show outcome. It's not a singing contest, or even a popularity contest; it's become a race to see who can make the biggest spectacle. In that context, Sanjaya has the advantage...
...CONTEXT Senator John McCain strolled through Shorja--an open market in Baghdad--to prove that Americans have a warped view of the war-torn area. CNN correspondent Michael Ware challenged McCain's analysis: "I don't know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad...
...learning traces its origins, most influentially, back to John Dewey. Dewey, writing at the turn of the 19th century, argued that “apart from the thought of participation in social life, the school has no end or aim.” Furthermore, he wrote that the social context of an education should be evident in “both the methods and subject-matter of instruction,” that the two should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. This was as much a practical position as a philosophical one, deriving from both Dewey’s work...
...That even leftist leaders like Vasquez oppose abortion legalization confuses many in developed regions like North America and Europe. But it's not too surprising given the deeply Catholic (and increasingly Evangelical) cultural context of Latin America. Abortion is simply one issue on which many leftists feel they'd rather not waste political capital by butting heads with the Church. What's more, with the exception of Bachelet, the region's leftist heads of state (who won seven of 11 presidential elections last year) are all men and hardly immune to the machismo that tends to relegate women's issues...