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It is rare that a film makes you feel that you are actually witnessing history (rather than the "Hollywood Version"), but "Black Robe" accomplishes that and more.
After witnessing the onset death of his actress mother in a most implausible way (what movie crew would use a metal fence with their actors near electricity?),
She falls dead at their feet.Cut to a shot of a kid witnessing it and then to a long shot of the two cult people with the dead Charlene at their feet.
Perhaps more than the argument itself, what makes Capital in the Twenty-First Century a great read is the sense of witnessing a superb mind grapple with the big questions of our time.
But, beyond personalities and political calculus, what we are witnessing is a fundamental shift in the international system.
Kim Jong-il, who is known to have had a powerful attachment to his birth mother, cannot help but have been psychologically affected by witnessing his mother’s killing.
Yes, we are witnessing the emergence of China, Brazil, and India as important global economic players.
Europe, for example, is witnessing an upsurge in support for nationalist parties, like Britain’s UK Independence Party, and increasingly loud calls for self-determination, such as in Scotland and Catalonia.
Some commentators today think that we are witnessing the second coming of fascism.
But if we are witnessing an increase in the power both of the Parliament and of the Commission President, where has that power come from?
For at least the past decade, the world has been witnessing the endgame of the West’s 500-year hegemony.
No one adds up the costs of betraying, yet again, what America claims to stand for, even while witnessing people willing to march – in the face of bullets – for precisely those universal values: dignity, freedom, democracy, and equality.
Sixty years ago, a global crisis such as the one we are witnessing today would have had the potential to unleash another world war.
What we are witnessing in many countries looks like a slow-motion replay of the last housing-market train wreck.
Are we witnessing the collapse of yet another economic bubble, as many analysts are claiming?
We are even witnessing a boom in urban agriculture, as advances in hydroponic and aeroponic farming techniques make it easier to grow vegetables in confined spaces.
At the same time, we are witnessing the dissolution of the old Middle East created by France and Britain after World War I, when Europe’s two great colonial powers created territorial mandates in Palestine, Syria (including present-day Lebanon), Transjordan, and Iraq.
Yet the shock that we are currently witnessing is political.
Today, the West is witnessing anti-globalization opposition from members of professional groups, who fear the loss of their jobs to foreign counterparts.
Laws enacted to single out and “persecute” Muslims, and statements that affirm the Islamophobia of our media, buttress the absurd notion that what we are really witnessing is a “war on Islam.”
Even so, what we are witnessing in Moscow far exceeds anyone’s expectations.
Today, from Iran to Darfur to Zimbabwe to Georgia, the world is witnessing the effects of a budding post-American world, and the picture does not look pretty.
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative attempts to curtail sharply the amount of unhealthy fast food that Americans consume, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign to crack down on “super-sized” sodas, Asia is witnessing the opposite trend.
If the 2011 uprisings had not occurred, we would now be witnessing another year of autocracy, with more talk of dynastic successions.
BERKELEY – Now that we are witnessing what looks like the historic decline of the West, it is worth asking what role economists might have played in the disasters of the past decade.
In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.
The Big ChillMOSCOW: Russian-American relations are witnessing a renewed process of deterioration.
Two hundred years later, we may well be witnessing that battle’s intellectual and policymaking analogue.
And yet the reactionary/revolutionary movement of the type that we are witnessing – a backlash against the inevitable consequences of globalization – remains unmistakably French.
Conservation With a Human FacePARIS – The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.
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