Word: interpretations
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...office, you might say to yourself, "Oh, I watched 24 last night, so I'm just remembering that episode." But people have a harder time making sense of dreams. Maybe 24 caused the dream, we think - or maybe we're having a premonition of an attack. We love to interpret dreams widely, and those acts of interpretation give dreams meaning. (Read "Can't Sleep? Turn Off the Cell Phone...
...Palace Museum brokered a deal to send Chinese imperial artifacts to Taiwan for the first time in 60 years. In a show scheduled to open in October, the pieces will be reunited with objects taken by nationalists when they fled the mainland after losing China's civil war. Analysts interpret Beijing's conciliatory approach as a bid to improve China's image in Taiwan, perhaps to soften opposition to reunification. Whatever's behind it, Beijing's more amicable stance is welcome news to Chou Kung-shin, director of the Taipei museum. "Cultural exchanges," she says, "are the most convenient...
...Some interpret Sarkozy's comments as sniping that the Czechs are not up to the task of running the E.U., a task they took over from Sarkozy himself at the start of the year. There is also whiff of 'Old Europe' sneering at the E.U.'s newer eastern European members. But Hans Martens, chief executive of the European Policy Centre (EPC), says it is more a reflection of a Gallic instinct to intervene...
...separation of distance or time. The placard accompanying the exhibit says that Elswick wants the work to inspire us to make connections between our ancestors and ourselves, between one culture and another, between the community and the individual.” The engaging portraits encourage the spectator to interpret an unknown world while coloring it with individual experience, creating both a private and communal connection to the artwork. —Staff writer Melanie E. Long can be reached at long2@fas.harvard.edu...
...been a big season for me,” West admitted. “Last year, there was still a big gap between me and the top guys. This year, its finally closing, and I feel like I’m right up there with them.”Interpret “big gap” however you like, but West was ranked #6 in the nation last year.Even before arriving at Harvard, West was no stranger to intense competition. Like any good Canadian, the Toronto native was skating by age four. By age eight, West was juggling hockey...