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...reaction to China's market swoon was overwrought, and that this is not a replay of 1997. Rarely, if ever, has the global economy been stronger than it is now-one reason why so many stock markets have been so healthy for so long. If anything, what the Shanghai shock provided was a reason for investors-finally-to get real: relentlessly rising stock prices virtually everywhere had dulled their sense of risk to the point where "anything-somebody sneezing-could have triggered this," says Sean Darby, head of regional strategy at Nomura International in Hong Kong. "We've ignored risk...
...began in April 1996, Truth in Translation is innovative, surprisingly funny in places and consistently moving. The raw gospel lament by one witness, Mrs. Mtimkhulu, for her dead son, sung by Thembi Mtshali-Jones at the end of the first act, has extraordinary power, leaving the audience in pale shock as the interval lights come up. But Truth in Translation is more than a remarkable stage production. It is a testament to the human need to reconcile, and an examination of our capacity to do so. "Mrs. Mtimkhulu, will you forgive those responsible for your son's death?" asks Commission...
ZELJKO KOMSIC, Croat member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Hague did not find Serbia guilty of genocide in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, reflecting widespread shock among the victims...
...viewer with an almost hyper-real style of storytelling. Instead of using ominous music and loud noises to frighten the audience, victims are graphically killed with famous 60’s guitar rock playing in the background. Their own horror is not melodramatic, but written in the confusion and shock across their faces. The killing scenes are arranged similarly to those in “Jaws”: random characters are introduced, impending doom is certain, and goosebumps shoot down the back of your neck and arms. Instead of a cello increasing in bow strokes to mark the striking moment...
...unaccustomed to studying for tests or attending large lecture classes.“It was not a fun transition,” his roommate Scott remembers. “It was a change for him. Big time. Freshman year there was definitely a little bit of shell-shock.”For Jentoft, the confusion lies in the arena of social norms. “There are subtleties that I don’t always understand,” she says.Handling boys, for example.“I have an issue with not knowing which cues mean what...