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...Vashem Holocaust memorial with a Jewish concentration-camp survivor who remembered him as the young cleric who had saved her life as the war ended. Recalling "friends and neighbors" who perished, he said, "Men, women and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry?" "He understood Jews, not just with his head but with his heart," says Rabbi James Rudin of the American Jewish Committee. "His contributions are historic, and probably in history, he's the best Pope the Jews ever...
...scene of Glenn and his girlfriend idling in a cemetery at night. "The air was thick with the smell of baking bread," reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...
...Catholic, Kulongoski is knowingly taking a position in defiance of his church, which opposes his state's law. The church, in turn, is joining hands with disability-rights activists, who see assisted suicide as a first step to euthanasia. Even many doctors, who understand better than most what a horror a slow death can be, have trouble with the idea of speeding up the process. The American Medical Association remains opposed to any aid-in-dying laws, and the group speaks for a lot of its members. "When a doctor writes a prescription for lethal drugs," says Portland, Ore., radiologist...
Though ordinarily the myth of Dido and Aeneas plays as tragedy or romance, with Christopher Marlowe’s verse and Neil Bartlett’s direction, Dido, which plays through March 26 at the Loeb Drama Center, becomes more of a psychological horror story. The play keeps the audience transfixed yet repelled by the demonic passions of its characters and the equally demonic gods deciding their fate...
Overall, The Ring Two is no masterpiece. But it is extremely diverting and well-made, and doesn’t pretend to be anything to be anything more than a reason to throw some popcorn tossed in the air. Considering the horror films of late, that’s saying...