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...American Empire) has a gift for witty dialogue but a weakness for force-feeding his story with sentiment. References to ancient holocausts and to 9/11 simply expose the intent of a director who will do anything to touch his audience--with a sweet gesture or a cattle prod. And in a comedy of manners, that behavior is very impolite. --By Richard Corliss
...need you. Historically, it’s been the youngest members of our party who most ably prod our collective conscience and embody our idealism at its rawest and purest. Many of your parents belong to the generation that helped to lead the civil rights movement when they were no older than you are now. Two decades later, in 1992, young people reversed a 20-year downward trend in their age group’s voter turnout, successfully paving the way for eight years of promise and prosperity...
...white photographs and memories of a time when checking off “White” on a Navy identification card was the ticket to a future free of racial shackles. Silk’s reinvention of his own identity is such that blame for a racial slur cannot prod him into telling the truth about his perfectly constructed life. These long years of ironic sacrifice are what Zuckerman chronicles in an attempt to weave together a Forrest Gump-like pastiche of recent American history...
Many top Palestinian officials believe Arafat's strategy is to eviscerate all credible alternatives to his leadership, leaving the U.S. no choice but to prod Israel to resume peace talks with him. U.S. and Israeli officials say they have no interest in giving Arafat another chance. Palestinian insiders think it is unlikely that Qurei, a former peace negotiator and longtime ally of Arafat's, will try to emerge as an alternative to him. "Qurei is no one's man," says Abdul Jawad Saleh, an independent member of the Legislative Council, "but as long as Arafat is in power...
With the FAS curricular review, he can poke and prod, but ultimately a Faculty vote will usher in whatever change is to occur. Summers will have to go to the mat to wrestle out of wealthy donors the millions necessary to fund major new labs and cross-school collaborations, but the Faculty will need to be behind the initiatives for them to succeed. And while consultants, professional planners and administrators will design the ideal campus, the transition from blueprint to reality will require at least the grudging consent of the faculties that will call it home...