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GIORGIO is not blind to the danger of remaining in such a tarnished paradise, but even the warning signals encountered abroad cannot argue with a set of emotions that are still back in the garden. He must follow the lines of action that form the framework of De Sica's subjectifying microcosm. These lines continue to bind his characters to the dual power of ethnic identity and omnipresent past. His young people run away and return, reject and make up, but the two dominant forces always narrow the scope of De Sica's drama to his claustrophobic universe, by holding...
...college is not what it used to be. The personnel may look familiar, but a Maoist education revolution has swept a new style of schooling into the old buildings. The college's goal now is to devise an educational framework that re-unites China's student population with the working-class background most of the students spring from...
...Given the deep-rooted hatreds in Northern Ireland, a solution to its problems within the present demographic framework seems impossible. Why not try a population transfer of either Catholics or Protestants? The transfer of Catholics to the Irish Republic would leave a small but more homogeneous and justifiable British substate in Ulster. Alternatively, the transfer of staunch Protestant Unionists to Britain would make possible a united Ireland. The difficulties would be small compared with those that have plagued Northern Ireland for the past 50 years...
...even who their foreman will be. In another method, the men move along the line with the cars performing each successive assembly operation. The automakers are also rotating some assembly-line workers to different jobs. An employee may attach seat headrests one day, bore holes in the seat framework the next, connect back supports and lift seat cushions onto conveyor belts on subsequent days. At Volvo, some female assembly workers even spend one day every two weeks doing office jobs...
...also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still not healthy. That Stalin could divert the inevitable progress of history for so long and so catastrophically does not fit easily into even Medvedev's very refined Marxist framework...