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With Sue’s recent failed romance and all her kindnesses in this episode, we’re learning she’s human, but we like that she only goes soft when she’s not around the main characters...
...that it would pursue a policy of cautious engagement with Burma, in part because isolation had not worked in blunting the regime's brutal behavior. Administration officials cautioned that sanctions would remain in place for the time being and would only be lifted if the Burmese government showed tangible human-rights progress. But dialogue with dictators, goes the new U.S. thinking that is being applied from Iran to North Korea, is now seen as preferable to not talking and cutting off any chance at reconciliation. (See pictures of Burma's opposition movement...
...bloc, the U.S., particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush, kept ASEAN at arm's length. One reason was Burma's accession to ASEAN in 1997, which put the U.S. in a tough spot. Washington had been tightening sanctions on the Burmese junta because of its dismal human-rights record. By participating in ASEAN confabs, Bush's State Department worried that it would send an overly conciliatory message to the pariah regime...
...strung-together interview segments—doesn’t hold very well as a narrative in its own right, but it does an elegant and powerful job of conveying the central themes of Wallace’s work: the immediacy of existence and the pure moment of visceral human reaction...
...emphasis on blindness and seeing is on target; Sara, like the audience, is a witness—always emotionally interacting with the world she is watching. Reacting is human; when Ryan erupts and shouts “Judge me!” he is not only demanding but acknowledging the power of natural human behavior to utterly devastate. In Krasinski’s film, as in Wallace’s prose, no man or woman is left spared...