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...after a meal, a movie, some mingling and a four-hour nap, that leaves you with, oh, my God, nine hours to go. I read Jarhead for a little longer, then switched my video channel to the moving map display. It showed nothing but the huge blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Where the hell was Singapore anyway? Then back to the movies! Intolerable Cruelty zipped by. Then a couple of hours more sleep...
...permission to shoot inside the region, and the well crafted film, thoroughly researched and consistently engaging, provides an informative snapshot of the cross-continental response to the crisis. However, its emphasis on small victories, while inspiring, diminishes the urgency of the situation. The film spirals nicely inward. A world map with blinking exclamation points frames the opening credits, foreshadowing the film’s global subject matter. But Braun quickly makes it personal. His first quiet shots of the Darfur scenery are accompanied by one of so many heart-wrenching anecdotes. Braun explores the different avenues from which to approach...
...history is a process that is often indelibly altered by the actions of a small number of individuals. Certainly, one of his criticisms of the Peace Conference at Versailles is that only a handful of ill-informed Ivy League intellectuals were entrusted with the task of redrawing the global map. But what makes Andelman’s account of the Peace Conference so enjoyable to read is his depiction of the players who take the field at Versailles. Each country’s concerns are embodied in the persons of their delegates, and Andelman spends as much time exploring...
...longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
...With proper incentives, the EU is bringing reform and values into countries outside its current borders. One day, that can include Macedonia, Montenegro, and even Ukraine. This form of power will succeed at meaningful change where old strategic map-making failed, by choice and not imposition. Mapping ‘Europe’ is still a political rather than geographic matter, and it should remain that...