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...will use their music to test the audience’s capacity to hear “the truth” about politics and war, among other things. “I will rap about the Iraq War from the point of view of a soldier who was wounded in it,” Beica wrote in an email. “We will be talking about the true nature of Harvard and its numerous investment-banker wannabes, and much more.” While Beica will tackle potentially touchy subjects, Shaket will mix some jokes into his freestyle performance...
...start flowing into Gaza, since technically the strip won't be under Hamas' control. In practice, of course, Hamas will help decide how the money is spent. But lifting the Israeli blockade - along with doing more to stop the smuggling of rockets into Gaza and returning kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - is crucial to getting a real, long-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Once Gaza's reconstruction begins, Hamas will have an incentive not to provoke Israel and blow up the entire process. The happier Palestinians are with what they have, the harder it will be for Hamas...
...getting a civilian jury to believe that the frequently dehumanizing extremes of life in a war zone can be mitigating factors for even the most heinous of crimes will be one of the defense team's greatest challenges. Green is the first former soldier to face trial - and the possible death penalty - in a civilian court for conduct during war. And, during the first day of trial, Green's lawyers clearly felt forced to assume a pedagogical role that would not be necessary with a military jury. They described not just the psychological toll that constant battle can take...
...Yellow Earth” takes place in a village on the banks of the Yellow River, where a soldier has been sent to collect folk songs to be used for promoting the Communist Revolution. His primary source is a young girl named Cuiqiao, who longs to escape her village and the arranged marriage that awaits her. Through haunting, tragic songs the girl communicates to the soldier—and, it is implied, to the country that surrounds them—the misery and oppression of life in rural China...
...Although critics often view the movie as simply an allegory for Communism’s failures, Wang considers the work introspective and meditative rather than political or judgmental. He objects to reviewers who take the film’s plot too literally, thinking that the soldier serves only to represent Communism as false hope. “I think this film is poised to be post-ideological,” he says. “It is really a profound reflection about the long stretch of Chinese civilization...