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...acknowledge cultural norms are not in the interests of the U.S. and should not be part of American diplomacy. Indeed, the fact that Obama’s bow managed to precipitate a media controversy indicates that spectators are too easily distracted from the real and substantive issues at hand. It is true, though, that in the world of foreign policy the subtleties and nuances of behavior can influence the discussion of serious issues. The attempt to be culturally sensitive can immediately start negotiations off on the right foot...
...example, is set to a cheery Beach Boys tune. The movie also resists the impulse to tailor the style of scenes to their emotional underpinnings; in one scene, a woman discovers that her husband has died on the sunniest, most peaceful of early fall days. With a careful hand in these details, Moverman conveys the characters’ hardest undertaking: recognizing that life blithely continues no matter the magnitude of personal grief. “The Messenger” taps into this message by conveying—wonderfully and unexpectedly—a small sense of humor amid so much...
...side it would’ve been a chance for our guys to prove that that was a one-time thing,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “In some ways you want a chance to play a team a second time [but] on other hand you don’t want that mental baggage of a game earlier in the season hanging over you [because] it can provide motivation or worry...
...drum kit, providing successfully muscular, if surpisingly understated, beats. The other clear choice for a single, “New Fang,” tells a typical rock story of youthful indulgence and masculine indiscretions—“Sometimes you break a finger on the other hand / Think you got me confused for a better man.” Set to a relatively jaunty riff, the song shows the album is willing to compromise a little in the way of accessibility while still retaining its hard rock edge...
...bombarded by heartbreaking news stories about missing little girls and the predator next door. But too many parents, says Skenazy, have the math all wrong. Refusing to vaccinate your children, as millions now threaten to do in the case of the swine flu, is statistically reckless; on the other hand, there are no reports of a child ever being poisoned by a stranger handing out tainted Halloween candy, and the odds of being kidnapped and killed by a stranger are about 1 in 1.5 million. When parents confront you with "How can you let him go to the store alone...