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...exactly a week after the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at the epicenter. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes to remember the dead. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half staff and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence. Drivers honked car horns and factories blared their sirens in mass keening. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning during which Internet activities such as online gaming were halted and all TV channels except those broadcasting news were blacked...
...crisis had a defining moment, it came on May 19 at 2:28 p.m., exactly a week after the quake. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half-mast, and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence to honor the victims of the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at its epicenter. Drivers honked their horns, and factories sounded their sirens in a collective wail of agony. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning, during which Internet activities like online gaming were halted...
...International Crisis Group (ICG) from his list of advisers. Malley's offense had been to meet with Hamas leaders. Given the ICG's mission - the peaceful, negotiated resolution of conflicts - Malley would not have been doing his job if he hadn't met with Hamas. And given Obama's oft-stated position that we should be talking to all parties in the region, the Illinois Senator's position on Hamas can only be considered a sad abandonment of principles. And McCain's predilection for bluster marks him as a leader potentially less flexible than even Bush...
Even as he came up short, DeBergalis made his mark on the local political scene: his loss ignited a debate over Cambridge’s electoral system, which some criticized for favoring incumbents. His fresh campaign style also brought new attention to the oft-ignored college student demographic. Glenn S. Koocher ’71, a veteran political analyst who was once a Crimson writer, said during the subsequent election that he didn’t “see anyone out there running that kind of a grassroots campaign, mobilizing voters as DeBergalis had done...
...let?s face it, these witnesses are rarely visually arresting and their almost inevitable presence in documentaries is one reason the form?s audience is so severely limited. You generally approach factual films dutifully, without the joyous (if oft disappointed) anticipation you bring to fictional features. Errol Morris is acutely aware of this defect, and he likes to liven things up by bringing what Hollywood has always called ?production values? to his docs. His new movie, Standard Operating Procedure, about the shocking photographs that revealed the horrific conditions at Iraq?s Abu Ghraib prison circa 2003, offers a compendium...