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...simultaneous capacities for selfless kindness and selfish evil. In “Kekexili,” no one is innocent, and no one is guilty. Everyone bears responsibility for the destruction of man and nature. Director Chuan Lu’s touching, forceful film tells of a tightly knit band of civilians who devote their lives to protecting the endangered Tibetan antelope from unscrupulous poachers. Ritai (played with furious gusto by Tibetan actor Duobuji) copes with the murder of one of his men in the only way he knows: he starts hunting the hunters. With the grace of a master...
...time with her tight-knit family was heavily restricted. When visiting relatives, she had to stay at the local Opus Dei center instead of at home. In 2000 Lucy was told she could not attend her sister's wedding because the ceremony would not be Catholic. "My sister didn't talk to me for two years," Lucy says. It took five more years, however, before she decided to leave Opus Dei last April. (The group's U.S. vicar has said such dissatisfaction and complaints, while unfortunate, are unavoidable in large organizations. "You can't keep [directors] from making mistakes...
...leave are a small minority, and Allen describes the mood around the many centers he visited as cheerful. Bohlin dismisses charges that prospective members are unaware of what to expect, pointing out that all go through an 18-month preparatory process. He says that in a group as loosely knit as he claims Opus to be, "you can't keep all the people happy all the time; you can't keep people from making mistakes." And he says the organization has mellowed. "I was running a center as a 25-year-old," Bohlin, now 51, notes. "At this point...
Johannessen echoes the sentiment. “Leverett was very special,” she says. “We were a small unit, 26 employees. It was a close-knit group. We ate meals together...
...view the specimens in their natural coating.In general, the women and men of Amherst seem to dress somewhat alike. They revel in jeans, t-shirts with political messages, and sweatshirts with the names of other colleges besides Amherst on them.The men sometimes change up this uniform by wearing knit hats with earflaps, in order to guard them from the cold. People sported all varieties of clogs, sandals and fleece vests.I took out my bag of chocolate-covered espresso beans and popped them into my mouth, while playing “I Spy a Patagonia Jacket.”The show...