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...emphasized that "neither student was living outside the College's carefully woven advising system...
Shorn of its outward trappings, the adventure might have been woven a thousand years ago under the caliphate of Baghdad: back-corridors palace intrigue; the mysterious wounding at a festival; a headlong flight across the desert by the ruler's beloved daughters and his sons-in-law, one of them the land's chief armorer; their reception by a friendly monarch who shelters them in a palace. Finally, the betrayed ruler's son, who has wormed his way to grand vizier, leads a pursuit attempting to retrieve the fugitives. In a fury he denounces them before the neighboring king...
...widely assumed that drug traffickers who fiddled with Mexico's financial markets were responsible for some of the capital flight last year that hastened the collapse of the peso. By channeling huge sums into legitimate investments that are integral to the nation's economic health, the drug lords have woven themselves into the fabric of the country...
...tale from the Ramayana and brought to screen by computer technology, is the high point of the movie. Amazing special effects create a surreal landscape, studded with green thorns, where a blue-painted hero, Prince Rama, battles a multi-headed demon for his Asiatic Rapunzel. Told is segments, woven through the rest of the movie, the legend is paralleled to the separation of sara an her missing father. Prince Rama is even played by the same actor as Captain Crewe. Even the most venomous anti-Freudian has to ask: Electra complex...
...remember seeing my grandmother's prison dress from Auschwitz for the first time when I was very young. It was nothing much to speak of, a simple striped pattern on poor person's cloth. Yet somehow this garment had complexity woven into it as well, a product of the loom of nationalism, bigotry and inhumanity that gave rise to that most unfathomable of evils--the Nazi Holocaust...