Word: kinships
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...9/11 set box-office records and the filmmaker appeared on the cover of TIME. A trend that's equally worthy of celebrating is the democratization of the documentary, thanks to digital camcorders and the idealistic urge of citizens to tell a story. As journalists, we at TIME feel a kinship with such filmmakers and decided this year to lend our name and support to the documentaries in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the fast-growing festival, held in downtown Manhattan, screened more than 250 films of all kinds from 45 countries and sold...
...tempting to speculate, especially since writer-director Rebecca Miller is so quick to deflect the subject, that Jack could embody some aspect of her father Arthur. Tempting but fruitless, since the real kinship is with the work of another playwright, dead nearly 500 years. Jack is a blend of Prospero, lord of his fantasy island, and Lear, the mad king with a loving daughter. Rose is his Miranda, his Cordelia...
...influence, and whose leaders enjoy historic ties with Iran. Jaafari's Dawa party, like the SCIRI, spent its exile years based largely in Iran, and while their leaders are careful to distinguish themselves from the Iranian approach to involving the clergy in politics, they nonetheless express a strong kinship with the Iranians. Even the Kurdish presidential nominee, Jalal Talabani, has historically enjoyed good relations with Tehran. While the new government in Iraq is unlikely to mimic Iran's theocracy, it is likely to assume a foreign policy posture of friendship and cooperation with its Persian neighbor - and is unlikely...
...allowed them to transmit their ideas within a generation of Christ's death, and as a result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves into a culture...
...European states have a good deal more in common, in terms of political and economic infrastructure, with the Ottoman empire that with the antiquated structures of Byzantium or, for that matter, of Pera. The only logical definition Adomanis can have in mind for “Western kinship,” then, is religion. If he will insist on defining all historical battles as binary showdowns between Christianity and Islam, he should at least be forthright about...