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...other women, and discovers it empty. She learns--in three Gospels from angels and in one from Jesus himself--that he is risen. John's recounting is the most dramatic. She is solo at the empty tomb. She alerts Peter and an unnamed disciple; only the latter seems to grasp the Resurrection, and they leave. Lingering, Magdalene encounters Jesus, who asks her not to cling to him, "but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father ... and my God." In Luke's and Mark's versions, this plays out as a bit of a farce...
...scenes, Lai is an inspired selection. Lai for the most part leaves the leaping chest kicks and pistol wielding to police counterpart Kin, played by Ekin Cheng (Twins Effect), and instead uses his powers of subconscious persuasion to free his wife (played by newcomer Xu Jinglei) from Ng's grasp. For Lai, acting the heartsick husband longing to be reunited with his significant other comes naturally. Lines such as "The greatest happiness in my life is to be with you" sound as if they were lifted from his 1996 feel-good romancer Comrade: Almost a Love Story. (Lai tells TIME...
...Soviet leadership pretended that the camps were economically rational and productive. They were not. All needed continual subsidies. The Soviet system could not grasp the simple truth that people work badly if terrorized and half starved
...Army tanks arrived first and crushed the uprising. Even more striking, though, is Applebaum's description of the bureaucracy of repression. The Soviet leadership pretended that the camps were economically rational and productive. They were not. Some built useless projects, all needed continual subsidies: the Soviet system could not grasp the simple truth that people work badly if they are terrorized and half starved. Toward the end of the Gulag, Applebaum writes, "It was becoming clear to the Soviet authorities that the camps were wasteful, corrupt, and above all, unprofitable." Unlike Germany, Russia has not confronted its totalitarian past...
...When I informed him that they were gay, and that Mather house allowed for such arrangements, his tone didn’t change, and he was sure I was entering some sort of sketchy roommate lair that would swallow his only, delicate daughter whole before she ever managed to grasp a diploma...