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...Brawne’s needlework are arrestingly beautiful. Poetry buffs will also likely delight in hearing Keats’ work in a different context; it is particularly interesting to hear his theories on poetry and the role of the poet as delivered to Brawne in a flirtatious tutoring session.“Bright Star” is a frustrating film. Though it is technically proficient, its narrative failures make the film a chore to sit through. After all, if the two lovers do not think their love worth fighting for, why should a viewer want to watch their tragedy unfold...
...When the session ended several hours later, Ban struck a more optimistic note, telling delegates at the U.N. that "momentum had shifted for a global deal in Copenhagen." But the truth is that there remains a great deal of uncertainty that needs to be cleared up between now and December. No one expected a one-day meeting in the U.N. to solve global warming. But Ban's conference did provide some clues about where global climate-change policy is heading and which countries will be taking the lead...
Though dubbed "a conversation with Sarah Palin," the event turned out to be more of a monologue. She spoke for almost 90 minutes, all the way to 2 p.m., when the session was supposed to end. As an attendee said while walking out, "she clearly wanted to keep talking so there'd be no questions." The moderator did ask her a few questions, but that part of the program lasted less than 10 minutes. (See pictures of Sarah Palin...
...Agata read excerpts from “The Lost Origins of the Essay,” his new anthology. After beginning with a reading from the introduction of the work, a succession of Harvard professors read selected essays from the anthology. The evening concluded with a question-and-answer session with the author himself...
...state peace, this week he finds himself in the position of wanting to restart peace talks more than the parties themselves do. Obama will meet with Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York City. But both sides have made clear that they'll essentially be humoring Obama, showing up because the President of the United States expects it of them and not to relaunch long-stalled "final status" peace negotiations, as the Administration had hoped...