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Benfey often dives so deep into such detail that the reappearance of Degas is a jolt: Degas, again? The cogent explanations of Degas' paintings interspersed through the text transcend this discontinuity. New Criticism be damned, Benfey glories in tying the fiction of Cable and Chopin and the art of Degas...
The director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are...
But does it work? Most Western-trained physicians remain skeptical. Explanations that acupuncture restores the balance of yin and yang by tinkering at critical points along life-force meridians sound to scientists suspiciously like quackery. Advocates counter that their claims are supported by hundreds of research studies--as well as...
In an article on this debate in the American Political Science Association Comparative Politics' summer newsletter, Varshney acknowledges the contributions of rational choice to the study of economics and institutions in comparative politics but very pointedly states the limits of rational choice explanations.
Mitigating the damage that these comments would otherwise have caused, was Mandela's tremendous store of political capital: he had enough of the stuff to make any other world figure envious. Still, many wondered, what could possibly have possessed the man to squander his hard-earned prestige when he was...