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...fastidiously unkempt left-wing documentarian, wrote, "Michael Moore likes a general? I never thought I'd write those words. But desperate times call for desperate measures." Wonder what Moore thinks now, after Clark spent the first days of his campaign stepping all over his epaulets on the most basic question of the coming election: Was George W. Bush right or wrong to go to war in Iraq? Actually, I have a certain sympathy for Clark's stumbles. This is a difficult question, and the general has learned that while truth-telling requires more than a yes or no answer, politics...
...that let our national conscience slip enough for Reagan to arm, fund and train terrorists and dictators around the world during the 1980s—among them Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Surely, there must be an alternative to fear, a mindset that will strengthen rather than suspend basic human, and American, values rather than drive us to set more traps for ourselves...
...reconcile this difference, we struggle to create a proper context for ourselves. On a basic level, this means finding our communities: my desire to write rambling columns might seem out of context in the math department, so I gravitate toward the humanities. That’s a move that most of us make fairly early. In every aspect of our lives—academic, social, cultural, extracurricular—we try to find the places where it is least likely that people will think we’re crazy, the places where our goals and sentiments are most likely...
...millions of words in testimony, documents and e-mails he received in evidence - and instantly put on his website - have painted a gripping picture of political hardball, blame shifting and bad judgment inside Tony Blair's government and the BBC. Heroes were in short supply. Gilligan defended the basic thrust of his reporting, but admitted he had overstated the case against Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, for "sexing up" the September dossier on Iraq's weapons. BBC managers, reeling under a ferocious assault from Campbell, looked hapless as they described a stout defense of Gilligan mounted without checking...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...