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...with the law. As the debate heats up, users of the hundreds of millions of phones and e-mail accounts across the E.U. may take comfort in their numbers and in the tens of millions of euros that greater surveillance would cost. "Investigators would suffocate in data junk," observes Harald Summa, director of Germany's Electronic Commerce Forum. So, too, the right to privacy could soon be gasping for breath, yet another victim of the "war on terror...
Unfortunately, the theme of this year’s Biennale does little to tie all of these elements together into a coherent overall exhibition. Admittedly, connecting circus posters with photographs of execution cells is a daunting task, but Director Harald Szeemann’s title “Platea dell’umanita,” (Plateau of Humankind) proves too grandiose to be noble. It remains unclear what, exactly, is the on this plateau: Is it the exalted artists? Is it the ideas of (in)humanity that they express? Or is it the Biennale itself? The implication seems...
...technology truly change such a remote place? Harald Kjensli, Modalen's official computer manager, is counting on it. He expects residents will apply for building permits online and eventually hold virtual town meetings. Kids will be able to retrieve assignments and hand in homework via the school's Web pages. That's especially appealing to older students: with no secondary school in town, they currently face a daily two-hour bus commute. Other, unexpected innovations are sure to follow. Opinion pollster Norsk Gallup is participating in the experiment to gauge the effect of high-speed Internet access. As Eck puts...
There is, possibly, a moral here--something about how sexual and material fetishism renders people crazy with desire. But let's not go there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
...Tyler). Jewel is a beautiful, money-seeking femme fatale who manipulates each man until she begins to lose control. She eventually meets her match when Mr. Burmeister (Michael Douglas), who may or may not be a hit man, arrives on the scene. This black comedy is directed by Harald Zwart who made his directorial debut with the 1998 Swedish film, Hamilton, but is best known for his comedic commercials for Lynx deodorant. —Yan Fang