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Officials at Gitmo say most detainees have gained weight since they arrived at the facility. In the kitchen, where food is prepared for both detainees and troops, boxes of bananas and pita wait to be incorporated into a dinner menu. Bread, milk, vegetables and fruit--bananas, apples, pears or dates--are included in each meal. The cooks use a lot of curry--breakfast might be curried eggs, dinner a curried-chicken stew--to approximate the cuisine of at least some of the prisoners. "The food I ate there was the best I'd ever had in my life," says Pakistani...
...very idea of a student-centered higher-education system, where every infrastructural nuance - from faculty offices to student housing to decent salaries to ample classrooms - is designed to facilitate both teaching and research, is as foreign to most French universities as a slice of foie gras is to a Weight Watchers' meeting. Instead, what we have in France - often in the name of democracy and equality of opportunity - are overcrowded classrooms, underpaid professors, faculty offices shared by as many as eight to 10 instructors, a system so mired in bureaucracy it requires a series of secretaries, forms, rubber stamps...
...arguably has more weight, unfortunately,” Novielli said...
Death is precisely what this film is about—what death takes from us, what it leaves behind. The film’s title refers to the amount of body mass a person is said to lose at the exact moment of death—the weight of the soul, some might say. The film’s narrative tiptoe dance through the past, present and future challenges this saying by reminding us repeatedly of just how much the characters once had, and asking us to decide how much they’ve lost through the death of others...
...bought or faked, particularly on folksy ballads like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover of “Redemption Song,” playing it as straight and simple as possible and letting the words and the weight of his voice speak for themselves. As the organ creeps in towards the end of the song, you realise you are in the presence of majesty...