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...once Japan had been beaten. Madame Chiang's heyday came during World War II, when she came to the U.S. as her husband's spokesman and made a rousing address to the U.S. Congress appealing for help against the Japanese. A charismatic intellectual who challenged traditional ideas of silent and subservient Chinese women, she took a leading role in nationalist politics, running Chiang's air force at one point. As icons of Western-friendly modernity and of unbending resistance to the excesses of Maoism, Madame Chiang and her husband were highly regarded in the U.S., and she was even featured...
...laughed a silent, piteous laugh, seemed to ignore me, and left...
...been rudderless since its crushing defeat by Berlusconi in 2001. In Britain, embattled Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has been gaining scant ground on Prime Minister Tony Blair - even though Blair's popularity has plummeted since the war in Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils...
...Supreme Court’s passive endorsement of this sickening practice goes beyond its usual barbaric support for capital punishment. It serves as a tacit signal to death penalty hawks that it’s okay to develop calculated loopholes to traditional restrictions. And it is a silent nod of approval for a conception of the death penalty as an end in itself and as the cornerstone of a warped moral framework in which justice remains undone so long as the wrongdoer breathes...
Filmmakers Chelsea Spear and Guy Maddin will be premiering their latest works every Sunday in October including Spear’s new 16mm silent film The Hidden where she retells the Calypso/Ulysses story of The Odyssey from a woman’s point of view. 7 p.m. $7. Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge...