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...Joyce-admiring Cecily and the Leninist librarian Gwendolen. The themes are the role of art and politics: should one accept a Wildean view of art for art’s sake, a Socialist one of art as political tool, or a Dadaist conception of art as needing to destroy itself? Is war a matter of defending the innocent or of seizing oil wells...
...collects and analyzes information to Berlin. "We need greater networking with the Interior Ministry," he says. "That's why it's certain that the BKA facilities in Berlin will be significantly enhanced." Once German agencies have information on suspected terrorists, other World War II-era laws require police to destroy files on individuals, further complicating operations and alienating allies. "It took us over a month to get German officials to approve certain requests," says a French counterterrorism official, recalling cooperation between France and Germany in 2000 to thwart a planned attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market by a Frankfurt-based...
...simple. “Alcohol is a part of every culture,” Colin B. Jackson ’06 says. “These people who are trying to have fun without alcohol are actually going against human nature. They’re trying to destroy society with this club...
...giving the matter such a measure of publicity as to rouse public opinion against the practice. A strict surveillance of the library rooms and watching men as they go back and forth is out of the question. It would almost be better to close the library altogether that to destroy the sense of freedom and of private ownership that characterizes...
...House, shadowy super Secret Agent Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to track her down using whatever means necessary, in writer-director David Mamet’s newest film. Although the dialogue often bounces with Mamet’s rat-a-tat flair, this movie’s deep flaws destroy the elegantly crafted political thriller that might have been. Cheap budgets, mind-numbing incoherence and nonsensical plotting overshadow the few genuine surprises and admirable political idealism to leave only a square-jawed action movie for pseudo-intellectuals that never lives up to its ambition...