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...what, is to blame. In Murder in Amsterdam, Buruma offers no such prescriptions. Instead, he brings a journalist's detachment to the debate, dissecting the violent rage of a "confused" and "muddled" Bouyeri, who was fueled by contempt for the liberal mores of Amsterdam. But Buruma also tries to explain the blindness that afflicts Western societies when it comes to understanding what may be motivating angry immigrants in their midst. No one knows where Europe's debate over Muslim immigration will end, but Buruma makes a sensible start. - By Andrew Purvis 8. Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy...
Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself-a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes...
...problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence’ and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
...Some people need conspiracy theories," says Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University. The loved one of someone who dies may find it easier to bear if the death can be viewed as something other than a random tragic accident. That may explain Mohammed al Fayed's total conviction that his son was murdered. He called the report "shocking" and his lawyer said many questions remained. Stevens would say only that al-Fayed was "a genuinely grieving parent...
...Final Club. An executive member of Harvard Right to Life thinks that masturbation is a sin: he and his girlfriend are also participants in a chastity group on campus. He must do a lot of laundry. Their sallow complexions imply that Advocate kids rarely see the sun, which may explain why they decided to bring the outdoors inside at their woodland-themed party last weekend. One attendee came dressed as a sasquatch. Profound. Monday night, one guy and three hot blondes sat down at a booth in Border Café and started ordering margaritas. The lucky guy? None other than...