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Cool & Crazy has already mightily impressed the Swedes, who can be dismissive about anything Norwegian. "There is a lot of humor and a lot of love in the movie," says Monika Tunbäck-Hanson, chairwoman of the Gothenberg Film Festival jury that named Cool & Crazy last year's best Nordic film. "For city people," she adds, "it's an eye-opener to see humble people expressing their deepest thoughts so fluently. And in such a landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing in the Snow | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...they decided to bring a number of these musicians together for a single tour. From that tour, they produced the new album, Live at the Quick. The album unites the deft musicianship of Fleck and his Flecktones with the unique talents of artists like saxophonist Paul McCandless, bassoonist Paul Hanson and Congo ol’Ondar, a Tuvan throat singer capable of simultaneously singing different pitches. Combined with Fleck’s electric banjos and Future Man’s drumitar, the collection of musicians produce unique instrumentations and texures which are unlikely to be repeated again...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/8/2002 | See Source »

...assure readers that he does not believe the West has a monopoly on individual bravery or strategic genius. It's just that culture and history have made Westerners more skilled on the killing fields. And in a passage Osama bin Laden (or Japanese militarists) might have profited from, Hanson points to the way in which the West's Greek-originated ethical ideas generate a murderous indignation: "We in the West call the few casualties we suffer from terrorism and surprise 'cowardly,' the frightful losses we inflict through open and direct assault 'fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the West Wins | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Hanson's command of a broad historical canvas is impressive. But his analysis becomes less convincing when he speculates about the future. Today, he says, "deadly Western armies have little to fear from any force other than themselves." His corollary: the West need not worry about non-Western flare-ups (e.g., in the Middle East) as much as a war between two Western armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the West Wins | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...could find themselves fighting? The U.S. and Europe, says Hanson. He points ominously to "the specter of a pan-European state [that] seems to create unity among its members by collective antagonism and envy of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the West Wins | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

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