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...Jacob and Fremeaux were also expected to be presenting The Fountain, the third feature from Darren Aronofsky (Pi and Requiem for a Dream), starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The synopsis - "Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world" - makes The Fountain sound wildly ambitious, on the order of D.W. Griffith's three-hour, four-part, epoch-straddling 1916 film Intolerance. One would expect as much from Aronofsky, a young director with an original, powerful vision. But The Fountain dropped...
...encourage and sustain the work of whistleblowers is to subject the government to thoroughgoing media scrutiny.Finally, focusing on press freedom emphasizes the power of indigenous groups to reform a country, instead of depending on continuous intervention and supervision by foreign governments. The failure of foreign aid provides a useful parallel. Constant and reliable inflows of foreign cash crowd out native innovation and entrepreneurship, preventing the development of indigenous industries. The same is true for the fight against corruption: Assistance from foreign governments or non-governmental organizations can be a temporary help for a country transitioning from an authoritarian regime...
...recruited athletes or their non-athlete classmates to pretend they don’t know about the very different ways they arrived at Harvard. If Lewis wants these two groups to respect each other, he must reckon with the College’s own role in fostering, through its parallel admissions tracks, a climate in which athletes and non-athletes often do not think of one another as genuine peers. It is those admissions practices, far more than any lingering fondness for 19th-century British notions about amateurism, which perpetuate the unfortunate divide between athletes and non-athletes at Harvard...
...Perhaps the parallel to pornography is instructive. The ability to download and view dirty pictures in the privacy of your own home prompted the triple-X expansion of triple-X businesses. Cultural conservatives regularly bemoan the Internet's ability to "normalize" such previously hidden behaviors as polyamory - you may be the only bisexual group-love aficianado in Omaha, but thanks to AOL, you can find more of them in Kansas City...
...After waging a decade-old war against the Nepali state that has taken about 13,000 lives, the Maoists now control large areas of the nation, where they run a parallel state, collecting taxes, building roads and enforcing their rule with brutality. Upon striking a deal with Nepal's political parties, the Maoists promised not to attack the Kathmandu valley during the protests, although their attacks continued elsewhere - they have killed more than half a dozen policemen and soldiers since the protests began. Most observers believe that the Maoists also played a huge, although mostly hidden, role in making...