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...From today's vantage point, most surprising is how much South Pacific, a show so identified with postwar America, seems to fly in the face of the prevailing patriotic afterglow of the ?last good war.? The melodramatic main storyline - a race to gain intelligence from the Japanese that could, in some unspecified way, turn the war around - carries about as much weight as one of Hitchcock?s MacGuffins. No one talks about the war?s ideals, or its causes, or even its combatants; every character in the show is seeking a way of escaping from...
...perhaps the most remarkable change of all is in how Baghdadis view the U.S. military presence. A year ago, Hammadi was in a minority: most Iraqis living outside the Green Zone saw the Americans as the main cause of their country's problems. Now, says Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, all the credit for the decline in violence is going to the U.S. military: "People think the Americans are like Superman, who can do anything...
Consumers are different, though, which is why we already have laws and regs meant to protect small borrowers and investors. But compared with the rules designed to shield us from dangerous drugs or even faulty toasters, they're pretty toothless. Plus, most are administered by agencies whose main responsibility is keeping whole the firms they regulate, not looking out for customers...
...taut physiques of four world-renowned ballet dancers bound back and forth across the Harvard Dance Center’s main studio. They’re wearing sneakers, and one of them is going the wrong direction. A good-natured Keith Roberts, longtime dancer with American Ballet Theater, is coaching them through the still unfamiliar choreography of “In the Upper Room.” One of Twyla Tharp’s most grueling and intricate works to date, the piece is slated to be performed during Boston Ballet’s upcoming season. This scene took place...
...notable intellectuals who have written provocative books. “The real idea is to introduce the widest range of perspectives through the questions as possible, to open up the terrain for discussion,” said Steven Biel, the executive director of the Humanities Center. Kronman reasserted the main themes of his book, arguing that the humanities’ initial and essential role in higher education should be to address the deeper questions of the meaning of life. However, because of the influence of what he calls the “modern research ideal,” Kronman said...