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...practical. There are 10 million people in North and South Kivu, and we have less than 10,000 soldiers there. In Liberia I had the same amount of troops as I have for Congo, and [Liberia] is less than one-hundredth of the size. Congo is the size of Western Europe, without roads. That's the scale of the problem. We cannot be everywhere all of the time. It's not indifference; far from it. We are there as part of a peace process that has collapsed. That's been made worse by the FARDC. It's a very difficult...
...still account for 33% of industrial production and 45% of investment in China's cities. Beijing also still holds sway over its domestic banking sector, particularly in times of crisis that threaten the Party's power. "On the outside, China's banks do look a lot more like normal Western commercial banks," says one investment bank analyst with a decade of experience in China. "But every single senior officer - right down to the manager of the smallest branch in Outer Mongolia - is a Party member. And when the Party says, 'Jump,' or 'We're all in trouble,' they...
...numbers, creation myths, an kinesthetically-oriented sense of direction, and even some linguistic attributes that were commonly held to be universal. These include quantifiers (e.g. all, every) and recursion (the placement of one phrase or sentence within another).Everett harps on what the Pirahã lack in comparison to Western culture. This labor, however, pays off in that it allows the casual reader to gain a basic understanding of the gravity of his assertions and of some fairly complex linguistic concepts to boot. Everett provides basic explanations of theories in the field such as the theory of universal grammar (which...
...luncheon with several Asian designers who had recently graduated from Parsons School of Design. Angela Gao—who completed her thesis collection last May and recently released her ready to wear collection, ANGG—also pointed to a divergence in Eastern and Western aesthetic. “Western style is about sex appeal,” she said. “It’s more straightforward and women are not afraid to flaunt their bodies. Eastern style is more hidden and demure, though the message is still very direct...
Distorted images line the walls of the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery, where five projectors each display a disassembled and digitally manipulated film loop. Each malformed video produces a different effect: an old Western movie is blurred in a way that leaves pixilated smudges of color on the screen every time an object moves, while a more abstract image shows hundreds of arrows rotating and flashing in place around a centered square. Several other clips recall online videos that have only partially loaded...