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...West, citizens of Asia's supercities and rural communities seem to vent their anger back at Uncle Sam, not at the extremist groups responsible. Why? Because the U.S. is still seen as a bully. When the U.S. seizes a North Korean ship delivering missiles to Yemen, many Asians posit another act of American imperialism. "It looks like America is still trying to conquer the world," sighs Nguyen Son Hai, a 23-year-old engineering student in Hanoi...
...life. How? Last year I wrote that because of post-9/11 sensitivities, "one doubts that the second season might involve...a nuclear bomb in New York City." I'm proud to say I was correct. The second season involves a nuclear bomb threat in Los Angeles. "Once you posit that the show is set in the world of antiterrorism," says executive producer Robert Cochran, "you can't shy away from the things that people are afraid of. It'd be like a cop show with no murders." (Also, 24 has gutsily kept its real-time format, which Fox feared...
...this is actually an acronym for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-Los Angeles and is the British equivalent of AMPAS (American Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). The L.A. chapter consists of members of the British film industry in self-imposed exile on the West Coast. (Some wags posit that the British contingent in Hollywood is the British film industry in its entirety...
...Crimson's editorials posit a disconnect between the Core's theoretical underpinnings and its practical execution. The editors cite, for example, an absence of features linking courses in the same Core area (i.e.: Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" and Social Analysis 34: "Knowledge of Language"). What can this "radically different" duo possibly share? Simply that each fulfills a common aim of the courses in Social Analysis, namely to familiarize students with some of the central approaches to the social sciences and to do so in a way that gives students a sense of how those approaches can enhance their...
...TIME: In the book you posit that slavery and freedom emerged from the same roots in Western society. How did those contradictory concepts arise together...