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...aspect is economic: there is concern about the technological gap that has opened up between the U.S. and Japan on the one hand and the old Continent on the other, mainly in such fields as microprocessors, information technologies and bioengineering. Linked to that imbalance is a lingering worry over slow growth and high unemployment. Another reason for the sense of drift is demographic. The 60% of Europeans born since V-E day tend to dwell less on the horrors of World War II than on a U.S.-Soviet rivalry that bristles with nuclear weapons, many of them based on European...
...heart of the movie are the three Gao siblings: Gao Weihong (Zhang Jingchu), the rebellious sister who wants to become a paratrooper and is constantly at war with forces determined to keep her grounded; her slow-witted older brother Gao Weiguo (Feng Li), whose parents favor him as unabashedly as his co-workers mistreat him; and Gao Weiqiang (Lu Yulai), the dreamy narrator whose life is overshadowed by his two older siblings. All three characters?played by first-time actors?hover between childhood and adulthood. The Gaos march to their own time, refusing?or just failing?to follow the prescribed...
Disillusionment was inevitable, although in my case very slow. Even after uninspired lectures, I remained awed by professors’ erudition. Even after excruciating section discussions, I remained in awe of upperclassmen (goodness! they could reference habermas! And foucault!), and anxious about my own spotty secondary education...
Your coverage of the garbage on TV depicted a nation in slow decline. The best thing that can be done is to break the TV habit. Then homework gets done, family relationships and friendships can be re-established, and there is time for great music and arts...
...thing to watch for: Brown, like fellow New England schools Harvard and Dartmouth, lacks the game experience of the other Ivy teams, with only 11 games played through Wednesday. If the Bears get off to a slow start in the League, don’t count them...