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...challenge for The International - for any thriller that's waist-deep in cynicism - is to create a goal the hero can achieve, whether or not that makes any difference. In the movie world, Clive Owen can track, find and eliminate the bad guy. In the real world, a banker like Skarssen is just one bad guy; and a million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap...
...normal for a man who won't buy a car because he is worried about his job is to stay out of casinos. But, when a man who stays up all night gambling won't buy a car, the economy is in deep trouble. - Douglas A. McIntyre...
When people engage in prayer, it's the frontal lobes that take the lead, since they govern focus and concentration. During very deep prayer, the parietal lobe powers down, which is what allows us to experience that sense of having loosed our earthly moorings. The frontal lobes go quieter when worshippers are involved in the singular activity of speaking in tongues - which jibes nicely with the speakers' subjective experience that they are not in control of what they're saying...
There's a tragic edge to these men. The great days of the biker gang, if there ever were any, are behind us, and deep down, you sense that the Lost know it. That knowledge gives the men an air of faded grandeur that's borderline Faulknerian. In their lameness, their expired '70s-era cool, they're emblematic of an America in decline. "The whole thing was meant to feel almost like they're living on past glory," Houser says. "They think they're the last true Americans, the outlaws, the free." But like Niko - who appears periodically in Johnny...
...nature.”“I don’t feel there is a conflict. [They] are all parts of the same thing,” she says. “But if people do feel a conflict, I think the more they can gain a deep understanding of both art and of science, the more they will understand the similarities between the two.”—Staff writer Eunice Y. Kim can be reached at kim30@fas.harvard.edu...