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Behind the hype—whether justified or not—is an important theme: respect for the peoples of the Global South and their institutions. There are certainly variations in individual cases, but in general, international adoption seems to undercut the dignity of many of the world’s peoples...
...What has transpired in North Korea represents the most serious disaster with regard to American national security in the past several years,” said Carter, who is also co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a collaboration between Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government. A theme throughout the 90-minute-long session was that the world has failed to take North Korea’s threats seriously. “The dirty secret is that our intelligence on Iraq and [weapons of mass destruction] was better than our intelligence on North Korea,” said...
...element as he guided the orchestra to an graceful and unified closing of the movement—something that is beyond the reach of many student orchestras. The final Allegro was undoubtedly the favorite of the brass section, who nevertheless resisted the urge to overblow the exciting theme. The strings and winds played the technical sections leading up to the final crescendo with a clarity that bespoke good rehearsing habits. After the symphony ended with a bang, the audience got on their feet for enthusiastic and well-deserved applause...
...Morose devotion is the theme of Saw III, though I doubt the folks at the Regal dwelled overmuch on this aspect. Jigsaw's main victim is Jeff (Angus McFayden), who has been consumed with bilious revenge since his beloved son was killed by a driver who received a light prison sentence. Now in Jigsaw's lair, Jeff must go through several torture tests to prove he can forgive those who wronged him. In an apparently unrelated "B" story, Jigsaw has kidnaped Lynn (Bahar Soomekh), a doctor, to see if she can relieve the pain of his brain tumor. For those...
...often in the past, the polls came to her rescue. One commissioned by the daily Le Parisien after the debate found that 59% of a representative set of French voters liked the idea of citizen juries, while 34% didn't. Royal is not budging on her overall theme that the French polity is seriously ill and needs a transfusion of people power. She sees her country being "pulled down by a depressive spiral" and believes that "whole sections of French society feel excluded by the public debate...