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...spoken than emotionally forceful. Indeed, the whole film seems to me more polite, less savage, than it might have been. It's possible to argue that that's true of its source material, as well - Waugh wrote the book in about four months, and that haste shows in its lack of intense tragic focus. But there's no point in adapting anything unless you are aware of its weaknesses and attempt to address them. Brideshead Revisited is untaxing, pleasant enough to watch. But I'm still waiting to be seriously discomfited...
...became a YouTube sensation, viewed many millions of times by people charmed by his easy manner, engaged by his lively insights into work, science, exploration, in awe of his complete lack of self-pity. He was the picture of health, with his thick dark hair and Muppet eyebrows, dropping to do push-ups on the stage, a defiant portrait of life with its edges all sharpened. Every sentence was soaked in gratitude, and listening to it could make you flinch at every time you'd whined or cheated or quit...
...have official sanction. The zones were met with skepticism from human rights advocates. Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher with the NGO Human Rights Watch, called it "a protest pen" meant to segregate demonstrators. "It's a system that has been set in place to deflect criticism about the lack of freedom to protest, the lack of freedom of assembly and demonstration in China," he says...
...rightfully focused on narco-trafficking. But you've got a 30% literacy rate. We actually had dinner with a very fine Minister of Education who is genuinely committed to education for all children, but particularly for girls. Listening to him describe not only the barriers presented by the lack of women teachers--and you've got to have women teachers to teach girls in a traditional Islamic society--but also the fact that they have to produce enough schools so that girls don't have to travel a significant distance, because in that traditional society, for a girl to travel...
...Anbar or the tribal leaders in Anbar really gave you a sense of how close to the surface the animosity between Sunnis and Shi'as remains. The way that the [Sunni] tribal leaders and the provincial officials describe the Shi'as in Baghdad was indicative of a deep-seated lack of trust. And the fact that the violence has lessened and that [al-Qaeda in Iraq] really has been routed does not answer the larger possibility of a return to sectarian violence unless that trust issue is resolved...