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...against capital punishment ("Since the days of Cain, no punishment has proven to be an adequate deterrent for murder."), the film culminates in Jacek's execution. The pandemonium surrounding the event belies the ideal of dispassionate justice. The mayhem in the execution room mirrors Jacek's struggle with his stubborn victim. It is not execution, but revenge, and the law denounces revenge...
Indeed, all of this paperwork on human rights is essentially nothing but an often powerless tool on the negotiation table. It never really turns anything around. China is still ruled by a stubborn Communist Party, and the homeless people hanging out in Harvard Square are still homeless...
...crinkles of himself in the pith of an essay or dramatic monologue. "Bennett has become a major figure in the English landscape despite versatility and his steadfast wish to remain hidden," writes critic David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film. "He may be Britain's best and most stubborn surviving miniaturist...
...issue that many Harvard students feel needs to be addressed. However, Dean Epps has come up with the wrong solution for a "void" or a "problem" that doesn't even exist. In a way, successfully addressing the question of Harvard social life may mean breaking away from Harvard administrators' stubborn belief that a serious and well-thought out intellectual exchange is the defining factor of the Harvard social scene...
...display has taken free verse to a ridiculous and grotesque extreme. We speculate that this was done for (melo) dramatic effect, but it does not succeed in moving us. Call us unfeeling. Call us not trendy enough. But the exhibit's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the wholeness of words and the rules of grammar just gives us a headache...