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...including references to obscure Russian poets, 1950’s French art-house film, or German philosophy. Obviously the media is just adjusting to the demographic fact that most Americans hold PhDs in literary theory even though they failed high school chemistry. It isn’t absurd to expect journalists working the politics section to understand politics or those in the arts section to have a background in art. Why is science reported differently...
...that may justify a viewing, if you can overcome its big flaws. The setting feels authentically English: the accents, clothing, and haircuts create an immersive 1970s London vibe throughout. Furthermore, it’s always exciting to watch Statham, especially in his native London. Just don’t expect this to be vintage Guy Ritchie. The moral of the story? Mashing a bunch of cops, criminals, and suits together in London does not automatically make for a fun movie. Jason Statham, to whom audiences continually look for that hyper-masculine British charm, can only provide so much within...
...voter turnout emerging as a key factor in these elections, the effect of today's killing is, in fact, hard to predict. Jose Ramon Montero, political scientist at Madrid's Autonomous University, believes the assassination "will certainly have an effect, but perhaps in a different direction than you might expect. Certainly there is a parallel with what happened in the last elections," he says, referring to the surprise ouster of the Popular Party government in the wake of the 2004 Madrid subway bombings. "But the fact that it was a Socialist former councilman who was killed could mobilize Socialist voters...
...everyone in the region has chosen a side: Caught in the middle are the likes of Brazil's center-left President Lula da Silva, trying in vain to bridge the chasm. Right now, that appears to be an intractable diplomatic challenge - not the sort of mess you'd ever expect to be solved by the Organization of American States, long derided as one of the hemisphere's more hopelessly ineffectual institutions...
...have no one [else] find out,” she says. And even some of those who leave their homes in the country’s more conservative climes and come out here are not satisfied with what they find. Many are faced with a disappointing gap between their expectations and the doldrums of a Harvard social climate so-often characterized as infertile ground for relationships, gay or straight.“I wasn’t out at home,” says Rafael T. Quintanar ’10, who went to high school in a suburb outside...