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...young man, he made a list of personal virtues that he determined should define his life. Following his method, we can get a glimpse of his influence on the American character by looking at the seven defining virtues and traits that he, more than anyone, helped to imprint onto our national fabric...
...factors include the historical defeat and humiliation of Muslims, their feeling of impotence vis-a-vis the West, the arrogant concept of the superiority of Islam and Muslim youths' lack of hope. The war on terrorism is to a large extent a war of ideas with a heavy religious imprint. Ideas and minds must be changed on all sides. CHARLES B. SHORTER Kampala, Uganda...
...this new view, genes allow the human mind to learn, remember, imitate, imprint language, absorb culture and express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints, nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life; they switch one another on and off; they respond to the environment. They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then almost at once, in response to experience, they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made. They are both the cause and the consequence of our actions...
...thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). Nor will it be the luxurious quality of the production - a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Instead, "Persepolis" (153 pp.; $17.95) will zap you with its story. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality...
...back to the biblical Flood. Egoyan, 43, who was born in Cairo to Armenian parents, says "the film's structure reflects the Armenian psyche." That psyche is riven by dual realities - the country that was and the one that is; the loss of both human lives and "the very imprint of humanity in us." To portray that divide in Ararat - which has just opened in the U.K. and Portugal, and comes to Italy, the Czech Republic and Israel this week - Egoyan created a film within a film. His movie is a contemporary tale of two families' searches for truth...