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This is all troubling stuff, and Lucas has done an excellent reporting job. And therein lies the problem. This is a reporting job, not history, and a certain perspective is missing. It lacks the cultural-historical context that a book on a struggle pitting Russia against the West demands. A book about a new cold war is really a book about a new geopolitics. Alas, The New Cold War doesn't read like a book about anything so monumental or metaphysical as a cold war. Instead, it comes across as a series of news stories on an unfortunate turn...
...come to expect, and in many ways it’s this predictability that we look forward to the most. This basic desire, it seems, is exactly what Sony Pictures was banking on when they made “Made of Honor.” The problem, however, is that they relied solely on this framework, forgetting that an actual film with developed characters and a substantive plot is necessary as well. “Made of Honor” stars the “McDreamy” Patrick Dempsey and the plain-in-comparison Michelle Monaghan...
...acts of terrorism. Samuels universalizes his subjects, presenting a world that is no longer governed by God or tradition, one in which his subjects struggle to reconstitute a shattered belief system and grapple to find meaning. When writing about a rehabilitation program, Samuels presents addiction as a metaphysical problem in nature: “addiction is a symptom, more urgent and dramatic, perhaps, of the constraints inherent in the human condition. The source of these constraints—our souls, ourselves, the chemistry in our brains—is hard to put a finger...
...problem with “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” is not that Samuels fails to tap into the palpable uncertainty that regulates our lives, but that he overloads us with extraneous phrases and superfluous essays and so violates our need for order and regularity. Ultimately, with Samuels’ book—much as in life—we are left clinging on to particular moments that we find significant and pocket-sized absolutes...
...pieces are still missing. Nevertheless, some museum officials say the number of missing items is impossible to pinpoint because of lost records. "We have some of the records, but others were taken... Outside of Iraq, people want proof that the pieces were taken from the museum. That is the problem now because we lost some of the files... I don't know the total number of artifacts before the looting. But we have 27 halls and they were all full," said the official, gesturing to a passageway lined with empty glass cases...