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...place that is both present and unreachable.” Pendleton says that Aljafari’s creative juxtaposition of shots of the family going about their everyday business with rapidly moving images of explosions playing behind them on the television screen is particularly memorable. The scene seems to speak to the superficial images of violence that fully constitute Palestine in the minds of many Americans. The festival’s organizers sought to counteract what they see as a one-sided portrayal of Palestinians in news media. “The Palestinian narrative is missing from the mainstream here...
Today, Alvarez will speak to the students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where her novel was on the summer reading list...
...pabulum [Oct. 6]. I am no snob, but I expect what's in the bottle to accurately reflect the wine's place of origin, traditions, agricultural history and, yes, terroir, which describes all of the preceding. Neither Joel Stein nor Fred Franzia has enough understanding of the subject to speak of it intelligently and should not be relied on to teach curious readers. David Moore, Moore Brothers Wine Co., Pennsauken...
...give up as soon as the U.S. breaks bread with them. But the alternative--endless conflict and occupation--is worse. The next President will take office in an age of dwindling resources, diminished U.S. influence and a public weary of war. Invoking John F. Kennedy, Obama says, "Strong countries ... speak with their adversaries." Wounded ones don't have a choice...
...maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole most often serve their sentences. Such arguments raise meaningful objections to the practice of state-inflicted death. The possibility of flawed outcomes, the lack of evidence for deterrence, and the burdensome cost of death row all speak to the amoral nature of the punishment. In the case of Troy Davis, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear this case is an understandable one, grounded in the belief that Davis received “due process by the law.” As an apolitical body...