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...deserves to be criticized. Societies that respect women will progress; the rest will degenerate. Krishna Raman Chennai, India Corliss says China is rich in top actresses and Japan isn't. But there are wonderful Japanese actresses in The Last Samurai (2003) and The Twilight Samurai (2002), and the latter was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Movie. Just because Chinese films are better marketed than those made in Japan doesn't mean Chinese actors are more talented. Kazuho Baba Anaheim, California, U.S. Memoirs Of A Geisha is most definitely not, as Corliss claimed, "a living work...
...here to implement the decisions that they do make.”Many groups have sent large delegations of observers to monitor the elections, Blanc said. The European Union plans to send 200 observers, and the Carter Center and National Democratic Institute will send 100 observers. The latter delegation will be led personally by former President Jimmy Carter. The IFES mission will not end on election day. Blanc, who has worked on policy and electoral issues in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo, said that his group is committed to working with the Palestinian Authority well into the future...
...living at the end of history. The hidden curriculum of our decade-plus of education has been that the world from now on will simply consist of democracy and capitalism ever-continuing, ever-expanding. This writer has nothing but love for the former and no beef with the regulated latter. Without a critical eye, however, it is too easy nowadays to accept other aspects of our world as permanent as well. Widespread hunger, devastating epidemics, intolerable unemployment, savagely unequal schools that lead to the mass incarceration of people of color—all these horrors come to be seen...
...resources committee and the FAS financial staff “talked through” whether to borrow annually or withdraw a lump sum and chose the latter, Campbell said, because they expected the endowment to grow faster than the interest rate on debt. University President Lawrence H. Summers told the Faculty at its meeting last week that the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—has approved the decapitalization “in recognition of what is by the FAS an extraordinary period of growth...
...drop out of the star system. Jöel Robuchon cashed in his Michelin status in 1996 to colonize Las Vegas and Tokyo and supermarket refrigerators with gourmet fast food. Many talented chefs refuse to join the ratings rat race altogether, opting to run more casual bistros. Some latter-day sansculottes can't wait for the extinction of la cuisine snob. But since when does democracy mean a dictatorship of taste? If haute cuisine disappears, so will the whole web of specialist artisanal producers that it supports. And the consequences could be even more grim. The best of the best...