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The laser-sharp focus directed at the LAPD may be partly due to public perception: These cities have wildly divergent police cultures. Philadelphia police were widely praised for their humane approach to the protests, but they also came onto the scene bearing far less baggage than the LAPD toted into...
Where some Islamic cultures have evolved detailed instruction on the taking of life and limb as punishment for various crimes, an American culture that takes its moral reference points from the Old Testament and the New is stuck with the challenge of trying, if indeed this is possible, of finding...
A city man (Behzad Dourani) comes to an isolated mountain village in Iranian Kurdistan. Why is he there? That is one unsolved mystery in this minimalist spellbinder. But suspense isn't Kiarostami's aim. He is after ordinary rapture, the gentle collision of distant cultures: a schoolboy, Farzad, who befriends...
Taking its name from the biblical garden, Eden holds that even the best traditional nursing homes have been modeled on hospitals--with their rigid hierarchies, overdependence on medication and sterile cultures. Staff members at Eden homes have equal status and make decisions in teams. "Staff treat elderly the way they...
I used to feel like a fish out of water in his presence too, not only because of the normal distances between fathers and sons but also because his world of preference and pleasure reached into a different America from mine. Father's Day makes one aware that fathers and...