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...Indian Film Festival and speaking for the Confederation of Indian Industry, for which he champions Asia as the promised land of cinema. "With the rise of Asian consumerism, in a decade 70% of all movie revenues will come from Asia," Kapur declares. "Asian culture will become the international norm. It's reverse cultural colonization. Hollywood will still be making Spider-Man movies, but when Spider-Man takes off his mask, he'll be Chinese...
...bites dog, it is. Your report of the sexually loaded torment of prisoners at Guantánamo is hardly shocking. After what happened (and probably continues to occur) in Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram, Afghanistan, such abuse by U.S. forces has come to be accepted as the norm. When we hear of prisoners being humanely treated by their U.S. captors, that will indeed be news. Tony Correia-Afonso Benaulim, India Peddling Nuclear Secrets You called Khan "the merchant of Menace" [Feb. 14] for his sale of nuclear technology, but it seems you forgot to mention many other "merchants...
...Seeing this many peeping incidents in one time is an anomaly,” says HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, adding that one to two per year is the norm...
After the presentation, the board asked Hartman some minor questions regarding project details. But in a departure from the norm, no residents commented at last night’s meeting, which Harvard officials called a signal that the community was well-informed about the project prior to the presentation...
...experience because if we all look into our pasts, we can watch ourselves get socialized into gendered ways of thinking, even women in physics who have to deal with being “women in physics” or those alluring male VES concentrators. We either embrace the norm or defy it. But what if there was no norm? What if all girls could be sure that they could “get” physics, and guys were sure they could “get” poetry? Would we line up in equal numbers to pursue every profession...