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Within this framework, director/screenwriter Scott Hicks (working from the prize-winning novel by David Guterson) creates a fascinating meditation on cultural misunderstanding. We watch as the Japanese and Caucasian children of San Piedro Island are taught the lessons demanded by their respective cultures--lessons which are well-intended, but which ensure that the schism between their peoples will endure. In the days immediately following Pearl Harbor, the island becomes a hotbed of racism. Local authorities haul the Japanese residents off to internment camps--an act which serves to justify the anti-white attitudes held by Hatsue's mother...
...more conducive environment for a week of diplomacy, State Department spokesman James Rubin said Monday that the two sides had not yet agreed on the agenda for the talks. Syria wants to begin with territorial issues; Israel wants the first item to be its security requirements. While the principle framework for a peace agreement involves Israel returning the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, normalization of relations and ironclad security guarantees, the devilish details keep a deal tantalizingly out of reach...
...Golan Heights in a league of its own. Israeli and Syrian negotiators on Monday began ten days of intense peace talks in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with U.S. officials playing down expectations for any kind of breakthroughs and warning that further rounds might be necessary. To be sure, the principle framework for an agreement between Israel and its most intractable foe has been on the table for quite some time: Israel returns the Golan Heights to Syrian control, in exchange for peace, normalizing of relations and iron-clad security guarantees. But the devilish details keep a deal tantalizingly out of reach...
...scholarly retreat largely created around him. (Asked what he thought he should be paid, Einstein, a financial innocent, suggested $3,000 a year. The hardheaded Elsa got that upped to $16,000.) Though occupied with his lonely struggle to unify gravity and electromagnetism in a single mathematical framework, he watched Germany's saber rattling with alarm. Despite his earlier pacifism, he spoke in favor of military action against Hitler. Without fanfare, he helped scores of Jewish refugees get into an unwelcoming U.S., including a young photographer named Philippe Halsman, who would take the most famous picture of him (reproduced...
Already, in fact, theoretical physicists have succeeded in constructing a framework that offers the best hope yet of integrating gravity with nature's other fundamental forces. This framework is popularly known as string theory because it postulates that the smallest, indivisible components of the universe are not point-like particles but infinitesimal loops that resemble tiny vibrating strings. "String theory," pioneering theorist Edward Witten of Einstein's own Institute for Advanced Study has observed, "is a piece of 21st century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century...