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...escalating assault on religious minorities, and the continued encroachment on free speech—everything anathema to a university proud of diversity and openness. And, moreover, they gave him a forum from which he might ridicule everything for which the university—and our country—should stand...
...like the Temple of Heaven or the Imperial Palace—monolithic concrete buildings are replaced by carefully cut stone and manicured gardens, protected by guards and signs pleading with passersby to “please protect the cultural relics.” These sites of officially recognized art stand opposite the everyday lives of Beijingers, making the name “Forbidden City” quite literal.I understood that contrast between the two Beijings on my first visit to China. But this summer, the most beautiful places I found were neither the most attractive parts nor the grittiest ones.Instead...
...their talents. While they all do their best to make the audience sympathize with their characters, the forced lines create an awkwardness that filmgoers can’t ignore. Even so, the film is bolstered by a warm and witty connection between the women. Blunt in particular is a stand-out, especially when expressing deep romantic frustrations with her husband. Scenes where Prudie debates entering into an extramarital affair with a hunky student shows American audiences Blunt’s artistic range. Having displayed a penchant for comedy in “Prada,” Blunt proves...
...city, suggesting that it might be part of one of the many deconstructionist paradises that sprang up on land formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall. Instead, I found a stark block of residential towers and an overgrown park set well off Friedrichstrasse, the thoroughfare where Checkpoint Charlie used to stand. The highly experimental architecture of the museum, which opened in 2001, was all the more startling for its failure to conform to its location, a disharmony that filled me with both confusion and understanding. The building didn’t fit in at all, and yet I realized that there...
...largest expansion of government since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society four decades ago, he is bending over backward to show committed budget hawks that he is really one of them. Earlier this week the White House went so far as to say that the President was making a stand on SCHIP because it was a "philosophic issue...