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...appeal on behalf of a now demolished landmark), and the reason he can write them with impunity is because they are drawn using a laser pointer in high-intensity light - not spray paint. By standing on the roof of a parking lot across the street, he also avoids any danger of trespassing. When he's done, Yan erases the words by clicking a button on the laser pointer, connected to a laptop and projector at his feet. He then moves on to tag other prominent buildings, including the city's Cultural Centre...
...favor, promising better cancer care for Britons and even attempting to turn around his party-funding embarrassment by proposing a fresh look at the rules that govern it. His own supporters are gloomy, recalling another Prime Minister who inherited the remains of an electoral term from his predecessor. "The danger for Brown is that this will start to be like [John] Major's government, buffeted by things happening to it, in permanent reactive mode, trying to micromanage each response to each incident, occasionally relaunching, and never really able to get back on to its own agenda," says a Labour insider...
...know what to make of Western tonalities. Rodger and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” elicited shock from most Thai who were offended by the portrayal of their much-respected king. The list goes on.Ultimately, such is the power and the danger of artistic license. Inaccuracy, deviation from fact—these are useful. However, the right to employ such tools necessitates a prior understanding of the target audience. When such understanding is lacking, one ought not be surprised at backlash, or in artistic counterpoints that take place (deconstructions like...
...Pope, whether or not one agrees with him, stands out for his intellectual honesty and linguistic clarity. He believes what he says, and says what he believes in terms that are simple but thought-provoking. In this latest document, he uses Marxism - though no longer a clear and present danger to Catholic faith - as a warning against the rampant growth of reason, science and freedom without a commensurate growth of faith and morals. "The ambiguity of progress becomes evident. Without doubt, it offers new possibilities for good, but it also opens up appalling possibilities for evil - possibilities that formerly...
...writer to feel for the Savage family in their distress. If you're an aging human being you have to have thought grimly about the almost inevitable exigencies of the endgame that you're probably about to endure. If you're the child of senior in danger of losing his citizenship in the rational world, you have to have thought about how to handle a parent's endgame. In writer-director Tamara Jenkins's intricately wrought movie, the old guy's children are flirting with middle age without much to show for it. Wendy is an unproduced playwright prone...