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...want to turn for a minute to the style of the movie, the sheer rush of it. It moves like a bullet train. That style makes us breathless and heedless, so that the full implications of the movie, its full embrace of moral ambiguity, occur later when you're thinking it over...
...World War II. It is sexy where they tend to be romantically chaste and wistful. It is realistic - that is to say it shows the underground to be rife with morally ambiguous behavior instead of universally populated by idealist-martyrs. And in action terms it moves like a runaway train - murders, gun fights, chases, torture sessions, follow one another in dizzying succession - in contrast to most such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow up the munitions train. Most significantly, perhaps, it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, who achieved...
...case in point: I take the subway to and from work, and shortly before I get home, my train emerges from underground, back into the world of sunlight and cell-phone reception. As it does, everybody on the train performs the same gesture in unison. We dip into our bags, briefcases, purses and pockets for whatever mobile digital device we carry. This is the behavior not of enlightened digital consumers but of addicts caught in an epidemic...
...program, co-founded by assistant professor Jeanne Nakamura, an expert on creativity and mentoring, isn't about quick fixes. Rather than teaching people how to be happy or educating happiness coaches, the school will train graduate students first in statistical methodology and then in specific research techniques. A small group of graduate students, about 10 at first, will use those tools to survey and analyze the variables that affect people's satisfaction. The first group will enroll this fall, and the program has already started receiving inquiries. Candidates from a variety of academic backgrounds will be considered for admission...
...State Department is trying to persuade a U.S. Congressional delegation, now in Israel, to support the State Department's request for $59.4 million in non-lethal military aid for Abbas. In practice, Israel is opposing the funding because it thinks that some day Abbas's presidential guard might train its guns on Israel...