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...politicians, what he is today. “In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with,” he wrote. “In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions, and useless ones can waste precious resources.”Coming from a man who recently moved from academia to politics, it’s an argument that can seem uncomfortably self-serving. It’s also one that makes little sense when applied to the United States’ march...
...winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Prize.The CommonerBy Jonathan BurnhamSchwartzOut NowNan A. TaleseNothing Drops in ‘Before It Falls’When authors, editors, publishers, and their marketing minions conveneto discuss what shall adorn their precious new creation, many questionsmust trouble them. “How do we seduce readers? Do we assume theycan’t actually read the title and need some symbolism? Or do we justput something on the cover so completely strange that they must immediatelybuy the book to find out what lies...
...center of this other Africa is Precious, "traditionally built," beautiful, independent and wise - the incarnation of a self-assured continent. But Minghella couldn't find her. "Over eight months, I went three times around a lap of England, the U.S. and Africa looking for an actor to play Precious," he says. "We workshopped it with eight or nine people, some very big stars. I basically gave up." Finally, while trawling YouTube two months before shooting was due to start, Minghella came across a poetry performance by Grammy Award?winning R&B singer Jill Scott, and "saw something...
...Precious Hope In the real Botswana, Minghella already had a good approximation of McCall Smith's red-dust Eden. This country of 1.8 million is one of Africa's success stories. Since independence in 1966, it has maintained a robust growth rate, and per-capita gdp reached a comparatively healthy $11,000 in 2006. Botswana's diamond wealth has fomented no coups or conflict, and the last assassination was in the 1960s when a tribal chief's brother shot his older sibling. Population growth is under control, and the country's schools, and its green tourism in the Okavango Delta...
...once again threatens the rediscovery of Babylon. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. Army built a helicopter pad on the site of the city's remains. A report by the British Museum claims soldiers have crushed ancient paving stones with tanks, carelessly filled construction sandbags with precious artifacts, and dug trenches - one of them 560 ft. (170 m) long - through archaeological deposits. All of this may rob the world of Babylon's final treasures, but, as the Louvre exhibition attests, the civilization will live on - in myth, if not in matter...