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...considers even slightly hostile. Only recently, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe was detained for trespassing in a public park on charges that he was trying to overthrow the Mugabe regime. This incident was an isolated one. It in no way reflects the general condition of all nations that merit a medium-level warning from the State Department. If anything, the incident is an outlier that illustrates the caution that students must be prepared to take when traveling abroad to certain places. Police states like Zimbabwe—with unpredictable laws and where tactics like arrest may be veiled attempts...
...disputed articles about the nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, admits that the book requires readers to make a "leap of faith" and accept the credibility of his sources. But the number of intelligence officials willing to risk their careers and come forward convinced Risen that their critiques have merit. "I got to these people at a good time," he says. "The frustration over the way things have been going in the Bush Administration had built up within the government. There were a lot of people who were increasingly uncomfortable with what was going...
...Another masterpiece released in teasing installments, the first half of David B.'s phantasmagorical memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother was brilliant enough to merit the top spot in TIME's top comix list of 2002. Finally partnered with the second half as a complete graphic novel, readers can at last enjoy the full scope of Epileptic's remarkable meditation on the nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother...
...Great Heights” appeared on the “Garden State” soundtrack. Fittingly enough, he played a set full of inspired reworkings of his own catalog.A stripped-down, softly finger-picked version of “Southern Anthem” was the best example of the merit of this approach for an audience familiar with his recorded material. Lyrical couplets like “Frozen, the river that baptized you/And the horse died standing up” came to the fore, and his gentle chorus hung over the crowd. Beam’s wordless, falsetto harmonizing with...
...while she is performing for all of Kyoto, her facial expressions convey that she is personally dancing for the Chairman (Ken Watanabe) whom she loves. There is always the risk that Hollywood’s sound and visual effects will ruin the text’s literary merit, but the cinematic techniques of “Memoirs of a Geisha” actually enhance the tone and mood of the story. In the opening scene, in which Chiyo and her sister are ripped away from their home, the lighting is very dim with dark bluish tones, and it is continually...