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Harvard Associate Professor of Anthropology Kimberly Theidon had no idea that her 2004 book of essays, “Entre Prójimos,” inspired the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Milk of Sorrow” until the film started to win awards last year...
Theidon, who first learned of “The Milk of Sorrow’s” existence last year when friends began sending her congratulatory e-mails on the film’s growing success, said she has never met Llosa in person and only corresponded with her through e-mail. Theidon also said that though she was not consulted during the production of the film, she has no complaints about the finished product and is considering a trip to Los Angeles for the Oscar party a week from Sunday...
...European Union was initially hailed throughout the world as “the European miracle,” a triumph for supranational organizations and international unity. Banded together in a monetary and trade-based union, the EU experienced rapidly rising living conditions and surprisingly harmonious relations. The last few months have shown, however, that the EU’s economic foundations were fundamentally flawed. Monetary and fiscal policy are deeply related, so a monetary union in which each subunit pursues its own fiscal policy is destined to fail. The best and most practical solution for the European Union...
...entirely on some admittedly inept governments. While it would be hard to find a country that was managed with as little economic integrity as Greece, all of Europe’s countries had access to easy credit and were members of a very lightly regulated financial system for the last decade. No Eurozone country was complaining about the structure of the economic system when Europe was thriving in the earlier part of the decade, and therefore, everyone now bears the responsibility to save the system and change it going forward...
...Ireland is the past; America is the future. I mean, I still think of America as the last great hope. I’m a great admirer of America, you know, for all its faults. I get furious at Europe and the easy criticisms of America that Europeans constantly make. Mostly I think because I’ve been there. And of course the people who haven’t been to America know the most about it, as you know, I’m sure...