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...corruption controversy. Two Shas ministers have been convicted on corruption charges in recent years. Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies in Jerusalem, explains that some parts of the ultra-Orthodox community tend to disregard secular law, despite a tenacious adherence to the minutest detail of Jewish religious ritual. Says Halevi: "You have a kind of borderless community that in its best expressions maintains international charity efforts that are second to none. But the dark side of this is a mentality that often too easily slides into rationalizations for acts that cannot be rationalized...
Meeting participants "come in with gadgets and toys, strange things like mirrors, records, their own color palettes and mood boards," says David Shah, a Holland-based publisher of color and textile magazines who runs the Pantone gatherings. "I've seen people get hysterical with each other over the minutest difference in hue, something where nobody's going to know the difference." He adds, "Color's a complicated business...
...little bit ahead of their seven-seat,” junior Moritz Hafner says. “But our boat was a little bit shorter. Still, it took them more than 15 minutes to really figure it out by looking at the photo.”Only the minutest fraction of Cornell’s bow ball kept Harvard from snatching its eighth national title.“How we ended the season last year will just fuel our competitive spirit this season,” senior Brian Aldrich says. “I definitely want one after what happened...
Superficiality aside, though, Cleopatra is the play's central character. While other characters and especially Antony himself seem to speak in a vacuum, characters react to her words and bend themselves to her minutest whims. Only Caesar seems to know that flattery is the sole path to Cleopatra's mind and motivations...
This actress knows where the camera is: nearby, as close and attentive as a lover, alert to the minutest inflection of voice or glance. Her Howards End work -- as Margaret Schlegel, a domestic diplomat mediating between warring families, classes and principles -- is a compact master class in screen subtlety. She punctuates an argument with a gay laugh, as if to say, "We surely aren't fighting!" Just before she first kisses her future husband, the self-deceiving predator Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), her body shivers, her hand flutters. The gestures, measurable in microseconds, give a brilliant hint of Margaret...