Word: reconnecting
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...dispel that smog. Despite Americans' reputation for obesity, for instance, "I didn't find any more fat people here than in any French provincial town." And he wishes the U.S. well. The Vertigo in his title refers to the vertiginous identity crisis he sees Americans facing, their need to reconnect their values with the behavior of their government. Where De Tocqueville famously warned against the "tyranny of the majority," Lévy sees a tyrannical right-wing minority acting like a majority. What kind of U.S. would he prefer? "An America of the Enlightenment, of human rights, of democratic dreams...
...Come Knocking, one of the closing movies of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, is the story of Howard Spence, a washed up bad-boy star of Westerns, who makes a last ditch effort to reconnect with the people who genuinely love him. The film, which was shot in small towns in Utah, Nevada and Montana and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 17, reunites German director Wim Wenders and American playwright/actor Sam Shepard, two icons of the independent art world who first teamed up for the acclaimed Paris, Texas (1984). They spoke to TIME about...
...Perhaps, but other Liberal stalwarts say what the party needs most right now is a lengthy period of re-examination to help it reconnect with voters it once took for granted. "People have to define what it is to be a Liberal again," says Tom Axworthy, a former aide to Pierre Trudeau...
...past. In addition to skeptics within the UC, several Harvard students may question Hadfield and Grimeland’s lack of Council experience. Hadfield views this as an advantage. “The current UC is disconnected from the student body. It will take outside experience to reconnect them,” he says.Grimeland echoes his running mate, adding that current UC members have already been given the opportunity to change it, but have had limited results.“Haddock is talking about fixing the UC,” Grimeland says, referring to Haddock’s website FixTheUC.com...
...second was when FEMA evacuated him to San Antonio, Texas, during the catastrophic flood that followed Katrina. As he jokes to his friends, both times the government picked up the tab. Now he waits daily for FEMA to give him hope as our family members try to rebuild and reconnect with our roots...