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...Hopes that a change of regime in Iran would somehow break the nuclear stalemate have dimmed, with the authorities having successfully contained the challenge of the Green Movement (whose leaders, in any case, publicly backed their country's nuclear program). And despite President Obama keeping the proverbial "all options" on the table, the U.S. military leadership is opposed to trying to resolve the nuclear standoff by force: Bombing Iran's facilities would likely only set back its nuclear program by a few years (and make weaponization more likely), goes the reasoning, at a cost of a possibly starting a calamitous...
...actions are unsubstantial to the point where one wonders if one should trust him at all. Banville paints the heavenly realm with ease, but he describes sex as “a repeated toing and froing on the edge of a precipice beyond which can be glimpsed a dark-green distance in a reeking mist and something shining out at them, a pulsing point of light, peremptory and intense.” Without a strong foundation in the human realm, Banville’s more conceptual ideas don’t stick...
...League” opens with a close-up of Kirk Kettner’s (Jay Baruchel) face as he delivers a well-rehearsed speech to try to get his girlfriend back. As he speaks, the camera pans out to reveal a beautiful backdrop of a green meadow surrounded by trees, adding a certain amount of potence to Kirk’s otherwise pathetic speech. However, as the camera continues to pull back, it becomes evident that Kirk is not in some idyllic mountain location, but is instead simply sitting in front of a billboard at an airport...
...Every type of pot comes from a certain tradition. Using certain materials and symbols, you can instantly conjure up a particular culture. There’s turquoise for the Middle East, blue and white for Delft [from the Netherlands], the bottle green ware of France, the ironware of Japan and Korea. If you use those techniques they immediately evoke a culture, and if you mix them you create hybrids. You hope that people can pick up on it—that’s where an increase in visual literacy comes into play...
...trip] was great for our squad,” Green said. “I think everyone improved. We will try to build on that momentum in the Ivy season...