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...Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting the harshness of daily life in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreams Meet Reality | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...signature of Barnard’s work––and one way Barnard tries to answer this question––is an imperfect, hand-made appearance. To this end, he intentionally leaves his little blunders untouched, and, if a piece on the wheel looks too immaculate, he will purposely damage...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professional Potter Shows and Throws | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

Robert Y. Shapiro, a professor of political science at Columbia University who specializes in public opinion and survey research, said The Crimson’s poll was imperfect but not invalid. The discarded question aside, Shapiro said the poll was not written in a way which would have likely swayed respondents one way or another...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Poll Finds Professors at FAS Deeply Divided on Embattled Leader | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...guess it’s natural. When we believe something is imperfect or unjust, we implicitly blame people who are a part of it. Suddenly their preppiness transforms itself into a horrible moral fault and they aren’t just preppy—they’re callous and ambitious, cynical and manipulative. In my twisted logic and progressive fervor they become little Nixons instead of the hard-working, idealistic people they...

Author: By Andrew Golis, | Title: I Hate Being Wrong | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

Robert Y. Shapiro, a professor of political science at Columbia University who specializes in public opinion and survey research, said The Crimson’s poll was imperfect but not invalid. The discarded question aside, Shapiro said the poll was not written in a way which would have likely swayed respondents one way or another...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Poll Finds Faculty Divided on Summers | 2/21/2005 | See Source »

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