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For all the ingenuity in its premise and the ingratiating voice cast, the movie works better as a sci-fi action picture - with some extraterrestrial vistas that come close to WALL-E's in their palette and precision - than as a comedy. That's understandable. As the first of its...
In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of a sprawling "military-industrial complex" that might act as an invisible hand pushing humanity closer to its own destruction. But what if the military-industrial complex could end up saving humanity from arguably its biggest threat: climate change?
Two decades after ignoring the results of Burma's last polls, the country's long-ruling junta has promised another electoral exercise next year, most likely by springtime. Few doubt that the generals' henchmen will stuff ballot boxes to try to ensure that the opposition doesn't prevail like it...
But The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer, if not an especially disciplined one. Littell's great insight is into the damage that genocide does to those who perpetrate it. The Nazi bureaucracy has sold Max and his colleagues on mass murder as a hygienic...
The United States must take decisive action against genocide in Darfur by appointing a special envoy and stepping up involvement in the region, said activist and award-winning actress Mia Farrow at an Institute of Politics event last night. Speaking to a small group of Harvard students and Darfur advocates...