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...world will soon know whether the prosecutor's saint-vs.-sinner theory has convinced the two Perugini judges and six citizens who have been watching the case with impassive faces for nearly a year. By Dec. 4, the jury will be responsible for unraveling a Gordian knot of science, superstition, logic and prejudice. They have not requested lodging, indicating that, as of today at least, they don't expect their deliberations to take more than...
...subtitle. However, this strand proves to be so complexly woven through and around itself that its fragments suggest a continuity but no sense that understanding is entirely possible; ultimately the viewer must tease out as much temporal logic as possible and then swiftly slice the remaining Gordian mess into decidedly more manageable, but also severely limited, strands. In these clips, molded around the existence of “Anne,” contradictions in personality and humanity surface. Through them arises the theme of life’s consistency, existent despite the reminder that “consistency?...
...life moves on. In the Golden State, bitter partisanship is exacerbated by a constitutional rule requiring a two-thirds majority in the legislature to pass either a budget or new taxes. Meanwhile, the state's nearly 100-year-old system of ballot initiatives has progressively tied state government in Gordian knots...
...world is a complex sociopolitical system, one that resists speculation from the narrow or clouded lens. From Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in interdepartmental squabbles and where an unmet quorum can constitute the positive derailment of progress, international crises can present themselves as geopolitical Gordian knots: impossible to disentangle entirely and inclined only to tighten further after the overzealous jerk of careless hands...
...much to ask Taylor Francis to untie that Gordian knot, but he's trying his best. Francis says he'll make the pocketbook argument that China's astonishing levels of pollution are already damaging the country's bottom line. "There's an estimation that China's environmental problems are already costing their economy 10% of GDP a year," he says. "The economic costs are immense and they will only get bigger." That much is known in China, and although the country gets a deservedly bad rap for its pollution - all those Beijing Olympics jokes - the truth is that there...