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...Munich Even before its release, Steven Spielberg's movie-written by playwright Tony Kushner-is being misunderstood by ideologues. It is about one of the teams Israeli assassins assigned to wreck vengeance upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media...
...even people we might have become, had we surrendered our best selves to noxious ideology. Downfall is not an exercise in idle, sensational historicism; it is a permanent parable about the human condition, how thin the line is between reason and the kind of madness true belief can impose upon...
...this one has a poetic, faux-naive narration and little dialogue to lead viewers through a story of small people in a gorgeous landscape. On landing in America, Capt. Smith (Colin Farrell) is intoxicated, beatified, by the new land?s abundance. ?Here the blessings of the earth are bestowed upon all,? he declares. ?None need grow poor.? Greed will be made obsolete amid such natural wealth. He is also stunned by the beauty of the Indian princess (Q?orianka Kilcher), whom he sees as a new and improved species of human. She and her people, he thinks, will ?create...
...program on Islam that is as worldwide and interdisciplinary as Islam itself. To this end, we welcome and are grateful for Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s $20 million gift to promote Islamic Studies at Harvard. This is as an opportunity to revive the discipline and improve upon what is already the largest single group of Islamic specialists in the English-speaking world. The addition of new scholars would also add to course offerings at the College, which suffers from a distinct lack of classes focusing on contemporary politics as well as the sociology of Islam. Recent news...
...purpose of a section is to reinforce, expand upon, and clarify the content of a course. Students should leave a section with a better understanding of readings and lectures. Rather than hear their fellow students make things up and regurgitate theory from Social Studies 10, students should enjoy sections in which their peers ask questions and offer new insight, while the TF’s supply answers and context...