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...filings.In a statement, Yale announced that the decision to divest was based on the conclusion that oil revenues play a major part in supporting the dictatorial African government. “As the source of such revenue, the companies are presumed to be committing ‘grave social injury’ by providing substantial assistance to the perpetrators of genocide,” the Yale statement said. Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate declared in July 2004 that the Sudanese government violated international laws against genocide in Darfur.Yale’s move could increase pressure...
...delivers Wilde’s dialogue with ease. In fact, Wilkinson’s performance, along with Wilde’s witticisms, carry the film. All in all, Barker has made a painstakingly mediocre film. Oscar Wilde, eternal opponent of all things mediocre, is gnashing his teeth in his grave...
...Radcliffe, during which she virtually built the dance program from scratch, she’s learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that...
...each other in the studio. That sense of playful collaboration rewards more and more with each listen. Lyrically, Murdoch sticks to what has worked in the past: stories about misfits. The title character of the song “Sukie in the Graveyard” spends her time making grave rubbings, lives illegally in the attic of an art school she’s not enrolled in, and poses for life-drawing classes with “the grace of an eel, sleek and stark.” And when the narrator of “Funny Little Frog?...
Precisely because the problem of declining demographics offers no easy solution, effective sound bites, or easy scapegoats, it has been almost entirely ignored by those in power. After all, don’t most European states provide virtually cradle to grave welfare benefits? Isn’t high-quality education available to anyone who cares to receive it? Isn’t healthcare free and effective? The answer to all of these questions, of course, is yes. Why then, with vastly improved material, economic, and social conditions, and three generations of peace, are Europeans almost entirely unwilling to engage...