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...slightly less shameful situation than a Sunday morning homecoming, stopped to watch him work. “The image itself is powerful, and very well done,” said Carey. Growing up, the Palestinian Shihada found art an inviting distraction from the cruel realities of the Middle East. “By the time I was 11, I had seen three wars,” said Shihada. But while traveling in Italy, he says, he saw a girl drawing on the sidewalk and “immediately knew that’s what I wanted...
...Brasov, Bran Castle looks straight out of a fairy tale. But its beauty alone does not explain the fervor of the debate over its ownership. The myth-shrouded castle is also known as Dracula's Castle: according to legend, Vlad "The Impaler" Draculae, a local ruler known for his cruel torture methods (the story goes he liked to have his dinner while watching his opponents painfully die on a stake) used to inhabit Bran Castle. This, however, is merely a myth, which has its roots in the famous novel by Bram Stoker, and no one knows for sure whether...
...President Drew G. Faust, if faced with the same dilemma as Bollinger, would not hesitate to follow suit.Bollinger’s introduction of Ahmadinejad also served to further academic discourse. Although the headlines may read that Bollinger insulted Ahmadinejad by calling him a “petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger’s introduction was mainly focused on the importance of free speech—which is all but absent in Iran—and a series of frank, pointed questions on human rights, Holocaust denial, Israel, Iran’s links to terrorist organizations...
...felt like the father of all these people, since it was I who opened the door for them to another world." At one point, furious that the police had cast their suspicion on another person, he promptly went out and killed two more derelicts. He could be especially cruel. The body of one woman was found with tiny stakes hammered into her skull and around her eyes...
...ghostly appearances both nag and reassure the characters, in much the same contradictory way that Manuela's grief haunts and comforts her. When Agrado delivers the great Almodóvarian declaration that "a woman is more authentic the more she looks like what she has dreamed for herself," the cruel subtext is that Manuela's vision of herself as a mother - like her son's ghost - remains forever out of reach...