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...this big, wide-ranging movie, scope is stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow...
Soderbergh's film has one admirable quality: the big huevos of cinematic ambition. Too many of the European films at the festival erred on the side of minimalism, both in scope and style. They begin by promising thrills out of classic crime fiction - an immigrant marriage-and-murder plot in The Silence of Lorna, a wife falling for the man who sent her husband to jail in Three Monkeys, a woman who's afraid she ran over someone in Lucrecia Martel's widely praised Argentine film, The Headless Woman - before turning sullenly, claustrophobically inward. For many vaunted directors at Cannes...
Such ripple effects among social groups may seem pretty obvious - people naturally look to their friends to figure out what behaviors are socially acceptable - but Christakis notes that the scope and size of the networks in which these effects operate is much larger than previously thought. His research, for example, shows that geographical distance between individuals in the network doesn't seem to weaken behavioral influences. That means that prevention and treatment programs for health-related behaviors such as quitting smoking, losing weight and exercising could become more efficient by taking advantage of the network effect. "The wonderful property...
...could be regulated easily by the government. But climate change is a global threat felt on a local level - greenhouse gas emissions anywhere in the world hurt the polar bear equally, and only by sharply reducing emissions globally can we protect the endangered species. That is perhaps beyond the scope of traditional environmental legislation...
...dislocations that might occur when providing long-term social benefits,” such as education. Audience member Harris Sussman, who runs the M.N. Adamov Memorial Fund to assist blind people in Russia, said he admired AKDN’s ability to offer such a “wide scope of activities” while still “respecting and operating within these cultures.” —Staff writer Peter Zhu can be reached pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...