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...hence my countless classmates who have four- or five-line descriptions of their summer location on their facebook.com profiles, listing in excruciating detail the exact dates they will be in Bermuda, New York, Cairo, Madrid, and Venice. Their whirlwind tours and my own (New York-Cambridge-London-Paris-Grenoble) reflect more than just the tremendous opportunities available to Harvard students (the first two legs of my European trip have been generously funded by College research grants). They reflect a realization that the summer months are liberating because they allow us to escape the ordinary and try something fresh and exciting...
...Before that happens, these complex patterns will show up in Australia's popular culture. The characters in Footy Legends, a new film directed by Khoa Do, reflect that layering. On the surface, this feel-good tale is about a group of mates from the down-at-heel western suburbs of Sydney trying to win a football tournament; beyond this, it's a story about Vietnamese refugee Luc Vu's battle to retain custody of his little sister Anne after the death of their mother. In one sense, it's formulaic film-making (the triumph over adversity), but Footy Legends...
...fire agreement to allow for the deployment of an international force to police such a truce, the U.S. is insisting that there be no demand for a halt to Israel's offensive until a mechanism is in place to disarm Hizballah. These differences are not diplomatic hair-splitting - they reflect profound differences over the fate of Hizballah. The only acceptable outcome for the U.S. is a defeat for Hizballah, because if the movement survives the onslaught with its independent military capability intact, it will be seen throughout the Arab world as the victors...
TIME: Can you reflect on the strange love-hate relationship between Cuba...
...instead of stories that reflect how 9/11 changed us, we have stories that help us flatter ourselves into believing that it did. The Flight 93 movies and World Trade Center, not to take anything away from them, cherry-picked the few triumphant stories of 9/11. They let us see it as a day when Americans tapped their strength, transformed and sacrificed--whether you and I, munching our Raisinets in the audience...