Word: wilber
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...irony lost on corpses, analysts say, the arrest of drug leaders often only leads to more violence. When narcotrafficker Wilber Verela, alias "Jabon," was murdered in Venezuela in 2008, seven allegedly related deaths followed the next week in Bogota, intelligence sources said. And after the April 1 arrest of Fabio Edison Gomez, alias "Rinon," the leader of Medellin's main crime organization, 33 people were killed in a week, according to the city's police. The renewed upsurge in violence led to the government dispatching some 500 soldiers and 6,800 police to poor neighborhoods in the city. But major...
...strains of intellectual imperialism. The Orientalism thesis has spawned much critique. Experts on the Middle East and historian Bernard Lewis deems it “intellectual protectionism” to think that only people who are part of a culture have the authority to depict it. Thinker Ken Wilber makes a similar point, musing that post-modernist critique has slipped into essentialism: “You have to be a woman to know anything about women; you have to be an Indian to say anything about Indians.” A lapse into protectionism is not only problematic but actually...
...package contains two commentary tracks on the full trilogy: one by "philosophers" Cornel West (who had a small role on the Matrix council) and Ken Wilber, the other by top film critics Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson, who connects The Matrix to every movie from Cocteau's Orpheus to the Alien quartet. The critics are unanimous in thinking that one Matrix was enough ("If the whole series ends here," Thomson opines at the first film's finale, "you've got nearly a masterpiece") and that some scenes aren't worth remarking on. "Perhaps they'll edit...
Banks and other financial-service firms complain that credit unions hold an unfair edge. "We welcome competition, but we can't compete with the bigger credit unions that don't pay taxes," says Harley Bergmeyer, 61, chairman of Saline State Bank in Wilber, Neb., a rural institution with $81 million in assets. Banks have periodically filed lawsuits to prevent credit unions from expanding, to little avail, and have tried to stymie the loosening of federal restrictions on membership rules (also with scant success...
...Wilber B. Churchill ‘05 was a longshot, but he made it onto the Krokadiloes on the strength of his audition number, Eazy-E’s “Nutz On Ya Chin.” One Krok commented, “You could really hear the emotion. And you knew that this guy believed what he was singing. It was really very powerful?...