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...very appealing to me to be involved and engaged with a particular subject at a very high level and become an expert at it,” Chen says...
...bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal...
...Peter J. Gomes is afraid: he is afraid that the gospel of Jesus, the radical and “scandalous” good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus...
...heavy-handed or militant, it is not immediately comprehensible to a casual viewer. Brouws recognizes this in his concluding essay, written precisely because of this ambiguity: “Beauty often merges with political or social content, even when those qualities seem at cross-purposes...[Photographs] can beautify a subject we normally might not deem beautiful.”There is no doubt that Brouws’s photographs are aesthetically pleasing: they capture the magical atmosphere of desolate landscapes with unfailing honesty. This is especially remarkable since his subjects—what urban geographers call TOADS (Temporary Obsolete Abandoned...
...critical question is, When does shooting guns or playing paintball (which the government has termed a "tactical training" exercise in this case) become nefarious? That is the subject of great debate among terrorism experts these days. "How do you decide when the line is crossed between a bunch of hotheads fantasizing and people actually planning attacks?" says Brian Michael Jenkins, a veteran terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "The only way you can get at that is to have a good understanding of how this process works: What is the trajectory of self-identification, indoctrination, jihadization...