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Al-Hazmi and al-Midhar falling between the cracks is not the stuff of conspiracies or simple incompetence. The CIA and the FBI are Cold War institutions that have never shared databases. Their communications systems were never designed to interface. FBI and CIA cultures have never meshed. The FBI collects...
Why does his humor translate so well across cultures?
It is on the level of a child really. Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common...
Ling says that she and her colleagues plan to expand their research in future studies to other cultures - not only British and Chinese - and age groups, including infants, to further test the nature-versus-nurture concept.
Early reviews have applauded the show for employing humor without losing sight of the underlying tragedy. At one point in the show, Hussein's henchman assert that Sayid "will go far" - well, "bits of him at least." And the foot-stomping number "I Wanna Be Like Osama" skewers Hussein's...