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...reminder of Bismarck's forecast 20 years before the outbreak of World War I: "If there is another war in Europe, it will come out of some damn silly thing in the Balkans." The lesson: don't take Churchill's quip literally. Choose your friends and enemies with equal care, for today's easy way out can create tomorrow's nightmare...
...course, limitations in genre or character type don’t have to equal boring movies. In the hands of a skilled writer, such limitations often yield greater creativity, as writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing...
...government tutorial grading standards should not be considered an inconvenience. All the students in the class will be graded against the same scale and will have equal opportunities to impress their teaching fellows. The central aim of an education should be to facilitate learning; awarding high grades for mediocre performance does not meet this goal. Mansfield is using his class as an example that other professors would do well to follow, rather than to ignore...
...Funk Odyssey is a very good album, both upbeat and introspective, with plenty to keep you entertained, and plenty to groove to. But one can’t help getting the feeling that Jay Kay is still searching for that elusive song that will equal the brilliance of “Virtual Insanity.” He’s not going to find it by sticking to his tried-and-true formula, but perhaps the evolution that this album represents is one step further along that formidable quest...
...Rather than feed its audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies among the authoritarian regimes that run the Arab world. But it has also drawn a loyal audience of some 40 million viewers, based everywhere from Washington to Tehran...