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China's Courage The grassroots heroism in the wake of China's earthquake reached epic proportions [June 2]. For perhaps the first time in the history of the People's Republic, secrecy was replaced by transparency and bureaucracy by efficiency. Your report highlighted the fate of the children crushed to death in the thousands by collapsed school buildings - evidence of heartless violation of construction codes in the pursuit of illicit profits. The pencil-clutching hands and bloodstained backpacks amidst the debris of jerry-built schools are a silent rebuke to local officials, and demonstrate the need for a serious crackdown...
...very good reason, “Madness...madness.” Such fine touches of irony pervade the film, giving it a refreshing tartness that most war movies lack. Boulle has packed into his screenplay all the elements a good war movie ought to have: torture, escape, death, destruction, heroism, sacrifice, and so forth. But everything is seen freshly, with the eye of an artist instead of a hack...
...Recent star inductees have included Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, and Sean Connery, joining such existing "legionnaires" as Robert De Niro, Pedro Almodóvar, Quincy Jones and Michelle Yeoh. Each may be a fine exponent of his or her craft, but none exactly rises to the Napoleonic standard of heroism. Even Wednesday's upgrade of Steven Spielberg from knight to officer grade in the Legion for "the body of his works, and his engagement for great causes like the memory of the Shoah and the conflict in Darfur" wasn't entirely in line with the institution's original objective...
...This notion of self-made heroism is the theme of the first two blockbuster movies of the summer season. We saw it last weekend when Iron Man, the one where arms merchant Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) builds himself a heart, opened to $102 million at the domestic box office last weekend. Now comes Speed Racer, based on the '60s Japanese animated TV series, Mach GoGoGo. It's the new sound-and-light show from brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, who in 1999 stamped the template for high-IQ effects entertainment with The Matrix. I don't think...
...Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald dared us, "and I will write you a tragedy." For Navy seal Michael Monsoor, heroism and tragedy arrived together, when the grenade thrown onto the Ramadi rooftop he patrolled bounced off his chest; he could escape--and let it kill his two comrades--or throw himself on top of it and trade his life for theirs...