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...father’s more self-reflective perspective. “Does she have a stomachache? Or maybe she is discovering the taste of her melancholy. Let her be, let her be sad, let her lose herself in solitude and her own smell. The first aim of an intelligent person is to achieve unhappiness when everyone around her is happy,” he read. A self-characterized graphomaniac and author of seven novels including “Snow” and “My Name is Red,” Pamuk reminisced about the burgeoning of his compulsion...
It’s a very blatant and explicit performance—the audience is fully aware that one actress is playing two very different characters, which suggests the ability of each person to manipulate their own performance and in a similar way. The play expresses the idea that political and gender identities are constructed via performance and aesthetics. It also explores how people so often define themselves and create performances in reaction to their perceived opposition...
...Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, 39.9% said they intended to vote for one of two center-right parties, and 10% said they would vote for the Greens. Ultimately Switzerland is likely to remain governed by four major parties, even if the SVP emerges victorious on Sunday; the government comprises a seven-person Federal Council, with party representation in proportion to the election votes. The President's position rotates yearly among the parties...
...decided to come," says Mario Marazziti, a spokesman for the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, the Rome-based group behind both the Assisi and Naples events. "At the same time we know this is a different Pope than John Paul, who touched so many with the charisma of his person. This is a theologian-Pope, who governs with his word." But more and more, Benedict also seems to understand that gestures - and even just showing up - are sometimes the best way to be heard...
...conservative hero Richard Perle. Hamre runs the distinctly moderate and internationalist Center for Strategic and International Studies, had a hand in organizing the Iraq Study Group, and has served on a number of advisory commissions about Iraq for the last few years. He is on any reasonable person's shortlist to be Gates' replacement as Defense Secretary in a Democratic administration. Hamre, from South Dakota, is an affable 57-year-old who is known to be concerned about the health of the services in the future and yet managed to get along with Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. As one longtime...