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...fully comprehend the psychology of the Israelis, who feel under siege. They are surrounded by hostile countries, openly espousing Israel's destruction. Why are we sending our soldiers to Lebanon? It is because we want to help guarantee Israel's security. They must realize that Europe is their friend...
...from over a month of war with Israel. For now, they are simply recording which buildings have been damaged, slightly damaged or obliterated. More detailed surveys will soon follow to determine what repairs need to be done and what buildings need to be torn down. "Your mind can't comprehend the destruction," said Al Tawil...
...movie does not confine itself to its trapped protagonists. Stone's reconstruction of the initial response to the attack--the disbelief, the mad dash of the rescuers to the disaster site, the desperate attempts to comprehend and get organized--is electrifyingly realized. In a movie age dominated by fictional disasters, it is wonderful to see Hollywood technology mobilized to make a worthwhile point, which is, finally, a very simple one: that under the impress of unimaginable chaos, human beings are capable of simple yet astonishing courage and altruism. Even in the place where a movie like this could go soft...
...Public Opinion Quarterly by Georgine Pion and Mark Lipsey echoed the BBC’s article: “In early studies of perception of scientists by high school and college students [dating back to the early 1960s] they were seen as intellectual dedicated human beings, but difficult to comprehend and erratic in their interpersonal relationships… 41 percent agreed that they were ‘apt to be odd and peculiar people.’ Such unflattering, stereotypic images of scientists apparently remain prevalent, even among knowledgeable people.”The modern myth of the scientist these...
...just the basis of a contrived tear-jerker movie, something that could only happen on the silver screen. No—it was something possible and real, something every human being could do with minimal effort. It was a humbling lesson that took some time to fully comprehend, a lesson I still haven’t managed to work into my daily life no matter how hard I’ve tried, a lesson in moral reasoning more profound than anything else I have learned in my two years at Harvard. “I’m a journalist...