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...liberal Rand Daily Mail remarked: "Under the kind of legislation which allows an admitted Chinese, born in Canton, to be declared a White South African, anything can happen." Apartheid had "no accepted scientific basis," the paper editorialized, and attempting to "define the indefinable," inevitably resulted in "humiliating" and "endless" disputes...
...have obscured the unflattering fact that the Buddha was a deadbeat dad. So a shimmering new English translation of the Buddhacarita, the 2nd century Sanskrit poem chronicling his life, reminds us that in his search for enlightenment and release from samsara - the wheel of rebirths that condemns us to endless lives and thus suffering - he cruelly abandoned his wife and young son Rahula (whose name, making a not-so-subtle point, means "fetters...
...outsiders had to describe Hong Kong's film scene, they might use words like prolific, thinking of the seemingly endless kung-fu films that the city's studios have churned out. Or, if they knew their art-house fare, they could call it sophisticated, with a nod to the international acclaim that such exquisitely shot films as Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) have won in recent years. But, in fact, what was once one of the world's busiest film industries has been in financial and creative decline for some time. With just 50 homegrown...
...This two-hour movie is in at least one way preferable both to the slow-moving novel and the endless television series. It requires of us about as much of our time and attention as Waugh's story demands. I'm as Anglophilic as the next person, but I'm also, by birth, a Middle-American Protestant-raised guy, taught to believe that we can make what we will of ourselves, unfettered by our parents' beliefs and our society's prejudice. This means that my patience with and sympathy for religious, ideological and class restraints on behavior - on our pursuits...
...very convincing," said Vladimir Vukcevic, Serbia's special war crimes prosecutor. "He looked like a cross between Sigmund Freud and a beat poet," says Goran Kojic, the editor of the Belgrade magazine Healthy Life, for which "Dr. Dabic" wrote a column. The endless, often vile dilations on the dangers of Islam and the suffering of the Serbs that Karadzic peddled during the war seem to have segued into a snake-oil sales pitch for "personal auras" and "vital energies...