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...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...
Running the European Union is no task for the faint of heart, especially these days. The constitution has been in limbo since voters nixed it in France and the Netherlands last year. Almost half the E.U.'s 25 member states are flouting Brussels' rules on deficit spending, mostly with impunity. Governments have generally ignored or outright rejected the Commission's recommendations for making Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. And sometimes, the issues take on a personal edge. When José Manuel Barroso last month became the first European Commission President ever...
...shelter rather than abstract-expressive sculpture,” Venturi wrote. To students inside Sever, however, it shows the pitfalls of delaying the outfit of a building constructed during the post-impressionistic era with information-age technology. There is no official wireless in many parts of Sever, but a faint, ghostlike 802.11b peer-to-peer network (named “Sever Hall”) continually tempts the hordes of laptoppers who frequent Sever everyday. With wireless in Sever, we could even look up the definition of “abstract-expressive.”Two: Bring back the sahel...
...Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...will be appearing this Monday at the Brattle Theatre along with Ware, has finally completed his magnum opus, “Black Hole,” serialized over a decade and now available in a single tome. “Black Hole” is not for the faint of heart. Like Clowes and Crumb, Burns explores the mediocrity of the suburbs and the disappointment and isolation of the teenaged years...