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Film Without A Title, also shown on last Friday, is a self-conscious film about filmmaking in the years after the defeat of the Nazis. Other films in the series include the German valentine to American jazz, Fanfares of Love, which Billy Wilder recast as Some Like It Hot a few years later, and The Hooligans, about youth rebelling against their Nazi-generation parents, a movie which resembles Rebel Without A Cause.While some of these films seem similar to Hollywood products of the Cold War era, many manifest a uniquely German struggle to create a new post-war national identity...

Author: By Jessica E. Gould, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Films Explore Postwar History | 3/14/2003 | See Source »

...said that politics and social theory need to be recast in a way that takes into account evidence that humans are in large part products of our unchangeable genetic makeup...

Author: By Anais A. Borja, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Linguist Pinker Rekindles Nature vs. Nurture Debate | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...multilateralism is hardly surprising. His view has many sympathizers, and their sympathy follows naturally from the kind of moral education we receive as children. Share, we are told. Cooperate. Don’t hurt other people’s feelings. In the vaunted vanity of academia, these lessons are recast in subtler terms. Sharing becomes “social justice.” Cooperation becomes “discourse.” Not hurting other people’s feelings becomes “tolerance.” Who could possibly object to such lovely, “nuanced?...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: In Defense of Unilateralism | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Although the series is based on sacred texts, the popularity of the videos rests largely on their irreverence. The parable of the Good Samaritan is recast with vegetables that wear shoes on their heads as the enemies of those that wear pots. Instead of David and Goliath, an asparagus fights a gigantic pickle. There are overt Monty Python references. When the videos first started appearing in Christian bookstores, college students working there on summer break were their biggest champions, playing them endlessly on the store monitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding God in a Pickle | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Companies looking to recast themselves as lean, mean corporate machines have three options. The preferred method of divestment is a sale, especially if there's enough interest to create an auction - and get a premium price. But buyers are not always available in slow economic times, and some divisions are not appealing to anyone. "If you can't sell it or if it is very large, you do a spin-off," says Paul Gibbs, head of M and A research at J.P. Morgan in London. A spin-off is essentially giving a unit to shareholders. But because spin-offs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Urge To Demerge | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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