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...that view. "The West can, no doubt, contribute greatly to our transition toward a market and democracy," says Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow's Institute for Political and Economic Research. "But the West should not in general substitute its help for our own strength. This balance is a very narrow thing...
Fifteen years ago, when King Fahd was still Crown Prince, he pledged to establish a citizens' consultative council upon ascending Saudi Arabia's throne. But after he came to power in 1982, Fahd found ample excuses to confine decision making within a narrow family circle. Then came Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent arrival of more than 500,000 U.S. troops in the region. While President Bush maintained that Desert Storm was not designed to promote democracy in the gulf's oilagarchies, the campaign to liberate Kuwait prodded conservative Arab rulers to broaden public participation...
...series of vignettes from the early life of O'Keefe informs the audience about the historical context of her life. We hear the whining voices of her narrow-minded family but Georgia does not--the colors of her bucolic youth on a Wisconsin farm call to her. Later, we see O'Keefe in a studio, up against a condescending and arrogant artist (Howie Axelrod) who wants to paint her--but she will not be his model. From the start, Georgia is a spirit set apart...
First, the word "classical". If it were spelled with a capital "C", it would denote a very narrow body of music composed primarily during the second half of the eighteenth century, according to a number of more-or-less definite rules guiding the practice of composition. In this sense, the only truly Classical composers are people like Haydn and Mozart (and even this comes under debate). Neither Bach nor Wagner would qualify...
...would seem to me that in these very troubled times, Gomes is exactly the sort of person who should be leading religious community. A person of courage, of integrity, and more importantly, of honesty. These would seem to me to be far more important spiritual values than the narrow religious fundamentalism espoused by those opposed to Gomes' presence...