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...party and government stratosphere is fascinating to the experts but at the same time feels anachronistic, even eerie. One of the world's last communist dictatorships is remaking itself in a vacuum while surrounded by 1.2 billion people. The great mass of Chinese feel more and more distant from rule of the party, by the party and for the party. They do not think of themselves as full citizens, much less as participants in their own society. Until the government establishes institutions with more legitimacy, with some voice for the people, it will be permanently unstable, no matter how collegial...
...parts on Sinatra and Allen. She and Sinatra were happiest in the beginning when they were goofily in love and their relationship was largely secret. But then came the squabbles with paparazzi and "the interminable Vegas nights," when Frank was drunk and petulant. Farrow started making films in distant locations; divorce followed shortly after...
...other Muslims who serve in the Israeli army as patriotic citizens. They came from every region of the nation, from cosmopolitan cities to small agricultural settlements. To us here in America, at Harvard, this loss of human life, of foreign soldiers in a little-understood war, is very distant and impersonal. These dead soldiers were not so very different from any of us, however. Most were between age 18 and 22, the very same age as American college students; many were looking forward to entering college when they finished their three years of military service. While we are carousing...
...Flash Gordon comic book angle in the last two weeks, at the expense of toning down some of the other classic themes and frameworks that Lucas weaves into the film's texture. In many ways, "Star Wars" can be approached as a competent Western set sometime in the quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verb; a barroom...
...February 5, I need to accept or decline. The once distant deadline is now approaching at the speed of light. The option to agree is seductive. I dream of spending a semester in Washington working for Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott (R-MS), or touring Europe. Whether or not my dream is feasible is another issue. The whole idea would then be perfect--seven semesters of academic study, one of real life experience...