Word: millennia
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...Those Old Hollywood romantic tropes still call to me. I was stirred by Jackman?s delicate power as a man both grieving and driven, spanning millennia, from the Iberian past to the astral future, to prove that love is stronger than death. I was impressed by Weisz? commitment to the role of Izzy, though it requires her mainly to shiver and sweat. And I was touched that Aronofsky, who could have kept making spiky little art films (and that would have been fine), took a chance on himself and the movie audience with a love story that is likely...
...divested all of us from the anxiety that we might be somehow guilty. The panging sensation of complicity is not new—it welled up in Pontius Pilate some millennia ago. He didn’t withdraw his investments from the timber industry—in those days, a literal hand-washing sufficed—but the message was clear: I’m not to blame for whatever happens...
...China has long referred to the Yellow River - which runs a silted (hence "yellow") course from the plains of Qinghai near Tibet to the Bohai Bay, opposite the Korean Peninsula - as "China's Sorrow." The name refers to the floods that have plagued people along its banks for millennia, but it has resonated painfully in recent years as the river has fallen victim to excessive damming, frequent pollution and misguided diversion schemes...
...There's been a myriad of sporadic cease-fires in the Middle East over the last 60 years--indeed, over the last three millennia ... Still, I think this one's going to last. Call it a hunch." ROB CORDDRY...
...early China has headed Historical Studies A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations,” with several different colleagues. Bol calls it a “division of labor” approach in which he leads the first half of the class through the first two millennia and then passes the baton to a modern scholar.This spring, he collaborated with Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Michael A. Szonyi for Chinese History 126, “Cognition and Culture in Local China,” and the two of them alternated by weeks, while also...