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...moments’ respite from the hand-wringing scenes of battle. There are rowdy ruts in the military pub, and there are quiet, heart-bearing tete-a-tetes between the soldiers. BOTTOM LINE: “Flyboys” portrays the international honor codes of war, the respect that soldiers of opposing sides hold for one another, and addresses the futility of war. This is a war film that has steered clear of side-picking propaganda and romanticized fiction. For that, it deserves a 21-gun salute. —Reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...It’s often said that the University won’t comment on the behavior of individual members of the faculty, and I, to some degree, respect that perspective,” says former Dean of Harvard College and McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68, “but this is taking that principle a little...
...Palace of Peace and Accord - a 62-m-high pyramid of steel and pale gray granite, designed by Norman Foster, with stained-glass panels by the artist Brian Clarke. Its art and sculpture were chosen to represent the world's major religions, to underscore the religious tolerance and respect that has been firmly established in a multiethnic country. An opening concert was headlined by legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caball?, as if to personify the harmoniousness and opulence Kazakhstan wants to project...
...into "false olives" and melon turned into caviar), the Gastrovac uses technology to make food taste more like itself. It started with vegetables. Torres and Andrés, friends since they were teenagers, were looking for a way to cook that would, in the words of Andrés, "respect the vegetable." In 2003, their pursuit led them to the Polytechnic's Department of Food Engineering, where they knocked on several doors before finally being directed to the lab where Xavier Martínez, Purificación García and Neus Sanjuan had been working for years on vacuum...
...they have lived as refugees ever since. The fraught and complex friendship that ensues between Dalia - a committed Zionist who wants justice for the Palestinians - and Bashir, a Palestinian militant who insists on his right of return to his home, allows for a rare frank dialogue based on mutual respect and an honest acknowledgment of the past, and of the difficulty of resolving the present. There's no happy ending or resolution, but their mutual recognition offers some sort of hope...