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...take off on a whirlwind tour of Spain, as he searches for a way to avoid his old identity and to discover how to live a completely new life.The beauty of the movie is not encased in the plot, which is simple enough. Rather than turn this into high-tension melodrama, complete with mad car chases and imprisonments, Antonioni pares everything down to the most minimalist possible point. The delicious assortment of visual simplicity needs no additional thrills or frills. From his beautiful palette—all blues, beiges and whites—to his painstakingly executed shots?...
...Commencement address, University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged the “contradictory themes” driving the then-fledgling Harvard College Curricular Review. He pointed to a fundamental tension between the desire to give students “greater flexibility in choosing courses” and the goal of providing them with foundational knowledge in topics such as history, literature, and science...
...rule of law are not limited to Muslim countries, but that these problems plague much of the Muslim world. “The issue of governance has yet to be resolved,” he said. In Asian countries, Ibrahim said, this may be a result of a tension “between Asian values and democracy and freedom.” He suggested that a traditional insistence that “leaders know best” may have contributed to the prevalence of autocratic rule in these nations. At another point, Ibrahim said last month’s Iraqi...
...tuned to American notions of free speech and expression, quite alarming. The internet is, it turns out, a scary place for certain norms of Chinese governance.Many of the sites made inaccessible by what has been coined “The Great Firewall” are those discussing specific high-tension questions of Chinese politics: sites detailing the lot of the controversial Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, sites about the Tiananmen Square protests, and some others about Taiwanese independence. Also blocked, however, are sources of general international news—the BBC web site, for example, can only be intermittently reached...
...surprised by the palpable intensity of the debate, but not displeased. “I think both [the commemoration and the panel discussion] were important, and complementary if somewhat dissonant,” said Hillel President and Director Bernie Steinberg. “I think it created an interesting tension...