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...communicate. Susan (Cate Blanchett) and Richard (Brad Pitt), the wounded tourist and her husband, can’t find a phone that will get through to the American embassy and are divided from the locals by a language barrier. Their Mexican nanny is frustrated in her attempts to explain herself to the U.S. border patrol after she illegally leaves the country with Susan’s kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their parents or the provincial police who hunt them...
While the challenge of integration is no laughing matter, Putnam uses humor to explain his findings...
Lately, I’ve found myself having to explain that I don’t work for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)—the public corporation that runs Greater Boston’s T—far more often than usual. I don’t imagine that it’s my appearance that leads so many Bostonians to suspect this employment. But as someone in favor of the MBTA’s recently announced fare hikes, I might as well be wearing a T patch on the side of my button-down blue shirt...
...Nation of Holocaust Deniers? The president's skepticism is, surprisingly, shared by many Iranians. But that doesn't mean they are anti-Israel. Let me explain...
...Thomas C. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel-prize-winning economist and distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, wrote “Micromotives” in the late seventies to explain collective human behavior. The book, comparable to Malcolm Gladwell’s recent work “The Tipping Point,” was revolutionary at the time and was praised accordingly...