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Mitchell cited one final thing that would keep African-American cinema growing and developing: ambition. He called it “the knot that ties pride and anger together for black actors and actresses.” It is the special hardheadedness that keeps the writers, directors, actors and actresses going even if the parts are bad and the money is hard to find, he said. Mitchell also predicted that the playing field will be leveled in the future. “The next two years will be interesting because people will begin to have access to the same equipment...
...Omar's disappointment, however, was probably the best news out of the embattled region in ages?and a possible breakthrough in the Kashmir Gordian knot. Kashmiris embraced the democratic process as a means of somehow going forward: turnout was 44%, compared to the pointedly apathetic participation in 1996 elections. They trusted India's vow that the polls wouldn't be rigged (as they have been in the past) and India came through. That's an amazing show of mutual good faith following 13 years of anti-Indian militancy and more than 36,000 lives lost. Militant groups attacked polling stations...
...years ago, then-No. 16 Harvard met then-No. 4 Wake Forest in the first round of NCAAs. The teams traded goals to knot the score at 3-3 when, in the second half, the Demon Deacons switched up their attack and scored three unanswered goals en route to a 6-3 victory, sending the Crimson home prematurely after its best season since 1991. Wake Forest lost to the eventual national Champion Maryland in the semifinals...
...religions are wrong. Perhaps God was truly waiting to write through the hand of an Elizabethan poet. Perhaps, if we can truly understand this greatest of works, our self-understanding will be complete. Perhaps this is His true Revelation, set before us in an infinitely-layered riddle, a Gordian knot that not even the sword of Alexander could hope to break. And the genius of the riddle is that though it can never be fully unwound, it brings you tantalizingly close to understanding its secrets, and through it, perhaps, the secrets our very existence...
...yourself, 'I'm going to get some spinach and a rubdown,'" says Liz Feldman, who goes to her local Whole Foods every two weeks for a stint in the massage chair. "But even if it's in a grocery store, I don't care. If you have a knot in your back, all you need is 10 minutes...