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...head practically explodes with the concentration they require, the pleasure they bring. And at 50, Tsui hasn't slowed up. Just the first two minutes of his new Time and Tide--the first Hong Kong film he has directed in five years--are breathlessly virtuosic, using slo-mo and rapid cuts and neck-swiveling pans to impart enough visual information for half a dozen Hollywood features...
Spring is the season of reflection. This includes the way that sunlight reflects so brilliantly off the Charles and the way that today’s heat reflects spring’s rapid fading. But more so, it means a season for our own internal reflections, which comes easy during long afternoons idling on entryway stoops or lying comfortably in the shadow of a tree. Spring presents a chance to reflect on choices made and paths taken, to assess the past year, and, for those of us who are graduating, to discern the future...
...past two months he has replayed the series of events surrounding the collision a thousand times in his mind. His sub had gone down to 400 ft. and shot back again in a rapid-surfacing maneuver known as an "emergency blow"--directly underneath the Ehime Maru. As it broke the surface, the Greeneville's HY 80 steel rudder, specially reinforced to punch through ice, ripped open the stern of the Japanese ship. "When I put up the periscope after the collision and increased magnification, I saw all those little people tumbling in the water. I felt disbelief, regret, remorse, anxiety...
...Temple University in Philadelphia, says slow progress can be dangerous. "Riots tend to occur when expectations are rising," he says, "when positive change is starting to happen, but not fast enough." Once the glass is swept up and the KILL COPS graffiti painted over, Cincinnati will have to try rapid progress for a change. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/Milwaukee and Andrea Tortora/Cincinnati
...Sumitomo professor of international finance and development at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former adviser to Chile in free-trade talks with the U.S. "Growth is the key question facing Latin America today," Velasco said. Analyzing the ways that developing nations could achieve more rapid growth, he said a "great bet for the next decade" was to "integrate yourself into a richer area" - precisely the path of the FTAA. "You import the institutions and procedures of that richer area, and then you grow. That works," he said, citing such cases as Portugal, Ireland and Greece...