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...feminist/political trap because as an artist, she remains fascinated by subversiveness, avoiding a man-evil, woman-good dichotomy. The poet is interested, instead, in the duality of the individual, and especially the female, self. She articulates this well in "The Loneliness of the Military Historian," describing a female scholar's fascination with the "masculine...
...most entertaining opera in the repertury. Rooted in the French graud opera tradition, Gounod did not attempt to infuse his opera with social realism, as did both Verdi and Puccini in different ways and with equally lachrymose results. Faust is unapologetically fantastic; it is the familiar story of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and the love of Marguerite, a chaste beauty. Gounod's music is as extravagant and emotional as the story demands, but the emotion is produced through charming melodies and dazzling orchestration rather than mere central...
...misconduct. This sort of jury nullification, wrote syndicated columnist George Will, in which the panel is motivated by something other than the particulars of the case, amounts to "approximately what Groucho Marx said in the movie Duck Soup: 'Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?'" Legal scholar Kamisar notes that juries now and then will use latitude to ignore law and free a defendant on principle, "but as a general proposition, you can't tell them when they can exercise it." Prosecution consultant Martel agrees that Cochran went "somewhat over the top in terms of a lawyer...
Michael Chege, a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs, said he also viewed democracy as an essential factor in economic growth...
...FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR IN ARCTIC AND environmental studies and a participant in an exchange with the Russian Academy of Sciences, I focused on the ecological impact associated with development of the Russian north, including Siberia [COVER STORY, Sept. 4]. I welcome your efforts to publicize what is indeed an environmental crisis of international concern in that region. However, your essential question "Can Siberia be saved by capitalism?'' was inadequately answered. You published a photograph of a devastating clear-cutting of timber resulting from a Russian joint venture with Hyundai, yet nowhere is the nature of that tragic deal covered...