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...cunning. Genes don't fight for survival. Genes couldn't care less whether they replicate or not. Different genes give organisms different traits. Some of these traits are conducive to survival and some are not. The genes that confer traits that help organisms survive and reproduce become more frequent in nature, but there is no such thing as a "selfish gene." What Dawkins is really writing about is natural selection--the nonrandom differential reproduction of particular genes. And the only new idea in the book--the idea of a "selfish" gene--ends up sounding rather silly...
...nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut in the relentlessly athletic work, which is set to music from Bach's Mass in B-minor with frequent explosions of Argentine tango, Béjart observed: Faust is not just a role, "it's a mid-life crisis. You want to live again. You want to be young again...
EVEN MORE EVOCATIVE are those progressions of shots with which Goretta establishes the rhythms of the film. The increasing tempo of excitement is matched by tighter, more frequent cutting. Scenes alternate from light to dark. A solitary tree stands still in a haunting though brightly lit field. Bits of broken chairs, marred by flame, are discerned in the warm earth-tones of a neglected garbage heap. A light flashes on a bank window. Nelly stands across the street by a bicycle. When Pierre dashes out we realize the two have become accomplices...
...countries that receive U.S. aid. Each section listed reported violations of 13 fundamental rights recognized by the United Nations, including protection from personal violence, the right to a fair trial, due process of law and the freedoms of expression, religion, assembly, travel and association. Among the most frequent worldwide violations: lengthy imprisonment without trial, blanket security laws that allow governments to suspend civil liberties and curbs on free expression (the press in 52 of the countries works under the threat of government restriction). Incidents of torture often involving terrorists and dissidents were reported in 32 of the states...
Thorough documentation of Arabic sources and frequent quotations from the political broadsheets of each organization has enhanced Ismael's effort to communicate the shades of tone and policy among and within diverse organs of the Left. In addition, the Appendices--translations of the Ba'ath Constitution and excerpts from manifestos of other groups--are useful source material, much of it never before available in English. Ismael's book is thus both a solid source guide to the development of certain leftist political organizations in the Arab world and a concise, not too formidable, introduction to a confusing subject...