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...ideas,” claimed the report, “helps [students] see how their identities have been shaped.” Another vaunted cornerstone of liberal education, “ethical awareness,” demands exposure to “beliefs and values that have shaped others?? lives, historically and internationally.” General education also “teaches students to understand themselves as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values.” And, as the report quite explicitly averred, students “need...
...from modernity and its discontents. But they slowly realize that what they need to escape from is each other. Max’s glamorous ex-wife arrives, along with their daughter, and a menagerie of others best kept apart, not to mention a pair of maids (who like each others?? pairs).The result is a series of trysts, each with varying degrees of success. Max and his best friend are struck by the affliction that makes Viagra viable, while Elena’s son beds a woman twice his age—Max’s ex-wife...
...thinking that as someone who has never really experienced anything more than minor homophobia in my life, I’ve got a lot of nerve slandering others?? sensitivity to homophobia. Let me reassure you: homophobia makes me about as angry as I can get (that, and having to wait in line for food). And sure, some of my friends and I may be post-homophobic, but the United States at large sure isn’t; and if the fear instilled in the closet cases on boredatlamont.com is any indication, Harvard as a whole...
...first glance, “The Lives of Others?? is just another “1984”-aping, “Big Brother is watching,” dystopian storyline. After all, the film is set in East Germany in 1984, before the fall of the Berlin Wall—a time when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) kept a strict control on its citizens. However, first-time director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck enhances that common storyline, making raw human relationships the central component of the drama, rather than the history of political events or theory...
...alternative energy sources such as ethanol and hydrogen fuel cells. “It is a process that will take time...not a transformation that can be rushed,” he said. Jum’ah said after the speech that Saudi Aramco will “let others?? invest in alternatives because the company’s bylaws mandate that its main focus be hydrocarbons. The company is owned by the Saudi government. When asked by an audience member about restricting oil production to curb global warming, Jum’ah asserted that this would...