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...historical evidence, and literary references, Sen appeals to a wide array of readers with varying backgrounds and levels of familiarity with current events.If there is one failure in Sen’s book, it is that it becomes repetitive.As Sen acknowledges in the preface, “Idenity and Violence?? began as a series of lectures that he presented in response to the violence springing up around the world. While Sen presents a clear thesis and trajectory at the outset of “Identity and Violence,” the individual pieces of Sen?...
...dystopian world 20 years into the future. During a visit to a gallery he owns—and which is now, in 2027, home to Picasso’s “Guernica,” the artist’s 1937 protest against fascism and political violence??Owen’s cousin responds, “I just don’t think about it.” Ignoring the realities of the world depicted in “Children of Men” might be the best recourse available. Directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuar?...
Withholding evidence that showed Colono’s history of violence??including “numerous” instances where he was “unquestionably” the aggressor—hindered the jury’s decision, Pring-Wilson’s defense lawyers told the Associated Press yesterday...
...worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence?? and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
Encouraging an end to the “cycle of violence?? and a development of democracy in the East, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called on the United States to allow countries to develop their own model of modernity in a speech at Harvard last night...