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...feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest, so I can be for you what you want to see…” —Ben Folds
...buzz” words pounded into shape a concise political critique. Its point was clearer than other films at the festival that indiscriminately linked new and old television footage to mock its subjects with a shallow and undeveloped accusatory attitude. Norris notably kept his footage in context and related it to the words that preoccupy today’s political world as a whole...
When he returned home in 1976, he displayed his talent for enterprise. He brought with him the Dutch woman who would become his wife--and extremely sensitive centrifuge designs, which the Dutch say he had stolen from his nuclear employer. In the context of Pakistan's rivalry with India, Khan's perfidy was considered an extreme form of patriotism. Since India had a nuclear program, Pakistan needed one too. Soon Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed Khan to run Pakistan's nuclear-research program, with the goal of developing a weapon as soon as possible. "Pakistan's choice was either...
...Education is not a victim of history; instead, it has the power to mold ideas, values, beliefs and perceptions. Because most academic disciplines were developed when blacks were seen as subhuman and unworthy of consideration, much of the content we read today has grown out of that context and cannot be divorced from it. A people whose history had almost been completely overlooked by scholars and has slowly struggled to find its place within educational discourse still does not warrant the “common knowledge” stamp from many people today...
...America's leading authorities on Shiite religious and political culture, and his proficiency in Arabic allows him to follow much of the political debate occurring among Iraqi leaders through Arab media outlets. His daily updates are essential reading for anyone seeking serious analysis on Iraq. War in Context, a dovish Web log provides an essential service by posting a daily menu of essential reading from a politically diverse range of U.S. and international media on the conflict in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. Saves you having to spend hours browsing the major U.S., British and Middle East dailies...