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...this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, the highest international honor for political scientists. The prize committee honored Skocpol “for her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare, and political trust...
...plot is simple: Johan (Cornelio Wall) - husband, father of six, devout believer -falls in love with another woman, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). Can he end the affair? If not, what will the reverberations be on his family, his community, his beliefs? Reygadas dramatizes this with small, telling gestures in long-take shots of the countryside, which places the land's natural beauty against the internal conflicts of the three main participants...
...dawn slowly breaking, finally full daylight, as the? sound track comes alive with loud crickets, braying, mooing and breathy, muffled screams. Brilliant sunshine bathes the family's kitchen as they take morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of the clock. Esther raises her eyes, Johan says, "Amen," and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps uncontrollably...
Theda Skocpol, the outgoing dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is this year’s recipient of the highest international honor for political scientists. The committee that awards the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science honored Skocpol, the Thomas professor of government and sociology, “for her visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare, and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence.” Skocpol will travel to Uppsala University in Sweden to receive the prize, including about $72,000 in cash, on Sept...
...also took the doubles championship, teaming with his coach Johan Durant to beat former world No. 1 Don Johnson and his partner Andrew Rueb...