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...towns and cities--and costs innocent lives. In the court of world public opinion, that is a fight Israel ultimately can never win. Worse, precisely because the collateral damage of such a war is so immense--witness the areas of southern Lebanon that have been turned into a wasteland of shattered masonry--Israel risks creating a new generation of Arabs that hates it with a passion. By trying to guarantee its security today, Israel may be merely threatening its security tomorrow...
...year the German Empire was founded. Badly damaged in World War II, most of the building was later razed, leaving just four inner-city tracks in operation. In a further twist, the cold war division of the city left the former hub marooned in the desolate wasteland abutting the Wall, the last stop in West Berlin before the Iron Curtain. The new building celebrates its renewed role as the focal point of the reunified metropolis. "We drew on the fact that Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was the center of Berlin, the embodiment of a lively city quarter," says architect Jürgen...
...innocence I thought my college English teacher, Mr. Morris, might feel the same. Anyway, I figured he's appreciate that some I typed up the lyrics and presented them to him with the midwifely pride Ezra Pound might have felt after seeing T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland in print. Mr. Morris read the text and looked at me as if I was daft. This wasn't poetry, his mournful look said; it wasn't even English...
Directed by Chuan Lu Columbia Pictures 5 stars Stillness and grit pervade Kekexili, the “last virgin wilderness in China,” a freezing, barren wasteland where comradeships are tested and the human spirit dies. “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” discusses in disturbing yet beautiful terms the human heart’s simultaneous capacities for selfless kindness and selfish evil. In “Kekexili,” no one is innocent, and no one is guilty. Everyone bears responsibility for the destruction of man and nature. Director Chuan Lu’s touching...
...imaginary dystopian future. Political dissent has been criminalized and suspected dissidents are arrested and prosecuted without consideration for due process. Once convicted (and they are invariably convicted), the dissidents are offered the choice of serving lengthy prison sentences or spending four days in the film’s titular wasteland. The “Park” is a fifty-mile-long desert obstacle course that the convicted must navigate by foot, without the benefit of food or water, while avoiding capture by police officers and National Guardsmen. Dissidents who are captured before completing the course are remitted to police...