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...hadn’t seemed particularly important at home, where, on various occasions I was mistaken for a Brazilian, an Irishwoman and a Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded...
Many cultures possess a cultural category we would describe as witchcraft. Typically these figures embody characteristics that break taboos about harmony, sex, children and other things valued by the culture. In western Europe, witchcraft of this sort was further shaped by Christian theology and ended in the construction of the witch we think of today...
...success of any film festival boils down to the selection of the films themselves. This particular festival showcases films that many might be dubiously overlooked as B-movie material, but actually possess both artistic and commercial value, its organizers say. Both Hinkle and Schneider also purposely chose movies from a wide array of countries, including Japan, France and Australia, to provide viewers with a glimpse into the ways that genres are constructed and interpreted in each region...
...imagine a Harvard where seminars and even lectures routinely take place in the Houses. But as every House Master can attest, this will require more House space than we now possess. Why not, if we can, build a House or two just across the River...
...intent, know-how and the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction does not quite measure up to President Bush's claim, in his final ultimatum to Iraq on March 19, that "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Nor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's claim, on March 30 that "We know where the WMDs are; they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." Nor, for that matter, to Secretary of State Colin Powell's insistence...