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...last week's elections, Canada--which boasts only one-tenth of the United States' population--showed itself to be the most vibrant existing democracy. After almost a decade of uninterrupted rule by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Canada has completely rebuffed his Progressive Conservative Party. The Conservatives were knocked from 153 seats in the House of Commons down...
...should we crown Canada the world's most vibrant democracy? If we reject all European democracies as too paternalistic and all others as too young or too unstable, only the United States is left for comparison. Few would dispute that the United States is the favorite for the honor...
...think that Cambridge offers a greatopportunity for students to become involved in anexciting and vibrant community," Myers says...
...wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions of the People's Republic, vibrant popular art like this can emerge...
...close-ups, in smokily languorous tableaus that erupt into brutal fights and sensual embraces. Instead of letting the performers sing, however, he has them lip-synch to a sound track of their own cast recording, issued by EMI Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging. And because the music seems once removed, the production often lacks the one quality that every directorial stroke was intended to achieve: immediacy...