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Stefan Thiesen, Selm, Germany Need I explain to a professor from the tiny, autocratic state of Singapore, which was founded by a former European power, that yes, indeed, in the European Union we are free to demonstrate if we deem it right? We are actually free to express our opinion publicly - and noisily...
...clutches of the biopic formula. "Girls don't play electric guitar," a patronizing instructor tells Jett (Kristen Stewart, nicely punked out) in an early scene; she responds by plugging in, screeching out some notes and swearing at him. It's a bit of a letdown, an easy shorthand to explain the motivations driving Jett and her bandmates. The Runaways themselves may have been fresh and exciting, but with this scene, the movie tells us it plans to walk the line.(See every Academy Award-winning movie ever made...
Offering advice to conservative undergraduates in attendance, Douthat said that “the job of the American conservative is to explain why they’re right...
...happiness than absolute wealth. The higher a person ranked within his age group or neighborhood, the more status he had and the happier he was regardless of how much he made in dollars (or, in the study's case, pounds). "What we're trying to do is understand and explain why, over 30 to 40 years, the large economic growth we have experienced hasn't made us any happier," says Boyce. "If absolute income matters, as we increased our income, everybody should get happier at a national level, but we don't seem to. So what we are showing...
...singularity of Steinberg’s mode of writing helps explain the curious sight of many Jewish public and literary luminaries—Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick and Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this...