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...aftershocks continue - 50 since Tuesday, according to the Geological Survey of Iran - amid mounting fear that the biggest of all may be yet to come. Iran sits on a major rift; its capital, Tehran, nestles on a spaghetti junction of fault lines. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, head of Iran's International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology estimates that "the possibility of an earthquake measuring more than six on the Richter scale occurring now in Tehran is about 90%." "The government must have more oversight on new building constructions, making sure they obey safety codes," adds Abdollah Saidi of the Geological...
With this attitude, one can hardly find fault in Lawrence’s similar treatment of religious motifs and storylines. Few people will enter or leave the Catholic Church after having seen the movie, but neither effect was probably on the movie’s agenda anyway. Maybe, just this once, a very average movie will be taken for just that, and neither an outraged religious radicalism nor a dazzling success at the box office will proclaim the latest sign of the Apocalypse...
...guess it’s natural. When we believe something is imperfect or unjust, we implicitly blame people who are a part of it. Suddenly their preppiness transforms itself into a horrible moral fault and they aren’t just preppy—they’re callous and ambitious, cynical and manipulative. In my twisted logic and progressive fervor they become little Nixons instead of the hard-working, idealistic people they...
While the landscape is politically charged, the political fault lines themselves are not so easy to draw...
...with a lead,” St. Lawrence coach Joe Marsh said. “A lot of the things we didn’t want to have happen happened fairly early on. But the goals they got were good goals on tip-ins. I can’t fault our goaltender...