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...family's tyrannical belief system. Waugh's whole narrative invites this kind of frustrated response. He wants to say something about the eternal values of the religious beliefs he converted to some 15 years before writing Brideshead. No matter how they inconvenience us, they are not, in his view, to be whimsically or lightly set aside. But particularly in its adaptations, that theme - dubious as it seems to me - takes a definite second place to decor and dialogue. We are made to feel nostalgic for a lifestyle, but we are not forced to contemplate the mischief caused...
...left homeless. But demonstrations during the Games could reignite it, says Victor Cha, director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. "Protests by foreigners would infuriate the Chinese and only fuel their reactive nationalist view that the West is trying to ruin China's moment in the sun," he says...
...about kids like these in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink; Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks mined the same vein. Burstein's film is way more earnest, but she's learned a lot, maybe too much, from the movies' take on teendom. Rather than offer a gritty view, upending the familiar vision of high school angst, she has fashioned a work so smooth and assured, it seems like a re-enactment of real events--the Hollywood remake of itself...
...self is capable of becoming all of these." In Karadzic's case, the reverse was true. The warlord charged with ordering the massacre of more than 7,000 people in Srebrenica became a harmless quack described as "friendly" and "open" by his co-workers. Once a proponent of the view that the ills of society could be healed by cleansing itself of an ethnic group, Karadzic the fugitive maintained a fascination with acupuncture and meditation...
President Bush has often said his whole view of Israel changed when he took a helicopter ride with Ariel Sharon and from the air could see how tiny and vulnerable the country was. Were there any moments like that for you on this trip--where seeing something in person changed the perspective you had on the issue...