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Renting a former Hollywood studio and filling it with over 200 paintings, sculptures and prints, and an installation of 25,000 books, the exhibition is of comically immense scale. But the media-hype and careful manipulation of marketing strategies ensures Guetta’s circus is a ground-breaking success...
With “Lalibela” and “Jamelia,” Caribou gives up completely and returns to his more airy roots, and the songs are better for it. The former, in particular, uses swelling, melancholic synthesizers and delicately whispered vocals to haunting effect. While “Lalibela” recalls the best of Caribou’s previous releases, that song and “Jamelia” are strange fits on an album dominated by pulsating drum-and-bass beats. Still, they’re a welcome break from the indecisiveness...
Beauvoir thus found herself caught between asserting and denying difference. Pushing too far toward the former, she risked reifying false understandings of “female nature”; turning toward the latter, she risked refuting the very distinctions that make men men and women women. To be sure, Beauvoir unequivocally rejected the notion of equality in difference, which, in her mind, spelled inferiority. Yet, as per her claims, since the essence traditionally assigned to women was unacceptable and no new essence loomed on the horizon, women’s only chance at liberation lay in emulating men. Beauvoir?...
...Something Rotten Another key to learning is a readiness to confront past mistakes. In January, a British public inquiry into the Iraq conflict heard evidence from former Prime Minister Tony Blair. "In the end, [the war] was divisive, and I'm sorry about that," said Blair. But he continued: "If I'm asked if we're safer and more secure, I believe indeed that we are." (See pictures of the Bush-Blair friendship...
...told the inquiry that a lack of expertise in Whitehall was responsible for - and continues to create - problems on the ground. "We are putting amateurs into really important positions and people are getting killed as a result of some of these decisions," he said. Nigel Adderley, a former army officer and now an analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, agrees there's a problem. "Today I don't think there's a government minister or anyone in the present government who has military experience. There becomes this disconnect between what the military is trying to tell...