Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor Minow asks all the right questions, but it is not always easy to unravel her answers. Navigating through her short examples and the sea of names of victims and officials is sometimes difficult, and the first few chapters seem not to lead very clearly from one point to another. There is little sense of progression but rather a sense of increasing complication. There is also a distinct lack of narrative cohesion. We are never really brought close to the trials and the truth commissions--personal reflections or individual experiences are limited especially in the first few chapters, kept very...
...After all, he gave photocopiers to Hungary to foster freedom of the press; and he isn't building nuclear weapons or launching terrorist campaigns like some of the other richest men in the world. What is scary is the system which could create a Soros, or others who seem to single-handedly fund the good works of the world...
...night before Thanksgiving day may not seem like the ideal evening to journey out to Symphony Hall--particularly not if one has never been there before--but the Boston Symphony Orchestra's performance that night certainly gave the audience something for which to be thankful...
...Allen seems to achieve some personal vengeance through this film as well. Robin, at the insistence of her best friend, goes to Dr. Lupus, a corpulent celebrity plastic surgeon. Dr. Lupus has plenty of suggestions for Robin, asking her, "Why should you be anything less than perfect?" Robin looks disarmingly like Mia Farrow, with wavy hair and a disheveled Cantabrigian fashion sense. Things aren't looking too good for Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than...
...music defined the Mainly Jazz company's sense of creativity, Mainly Jazz audiences generally have come to expect the same brand of familiar dance-remixes and popular R&B hits nearly every year--credit goes to this fall's talented set of Mainly Jazz choreographers who made each number seem startlingly original...