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...almost 17 months, the Palestinian uprising and Israel's harsh reaction to it have ravaged both sides of the Green Line, which separates Israel from the Palestinian territories. This town of 135,000 at the southern end of the Gaza Strip is the epicenter, where the intifadeh's ill effects are fiercest. There is no worse place to be an Israeli soldier; nowhere is it harder to live as a Palestinian...
With a leading actor whose best days seem to be behind him and a plotline involving a doctor caring for terminally ill patients, Dragonfly may appear to be unfortunately reminiscent of 1998’s Patch Adams. At one point in the movie, a doctor is even shown wearing Patch-esque bunny ears complete with marshmallow nose for her young charges in a cancer ward. But the similarities end there; Dragonfly forgoes the feel-good sappiness of the Robin Williams film and falls short in its attempt to be another Sixth Sense...
...posthumous release of an artist’s work is an inherently thorny enterprise. It is a tradition that began with Virgil, the Roman poet par excellence, who took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were...
...quickly," I replied. I was not trying to be mean, merely pointing out that young master Kim had picked up his flag in an ill-advised nonce, even as officials were quite obviously comparing notes at mid-ice. (His coach, Jun Myung-Kyu, took the postgame rap for getting the flag out there so fast: "I thought he had won.") There was about this tableau the air of a boy who had been bad, who knew he had been bad, and who was trying to put the misdemeanor behind him as fast as possible, hoping no one had noticed - hoping...
...contrast to the Irish situation, many potential peacemakers are themselves filled with despair. "There is so much ill will that neither side believes compromise is possible," says Orhan Pamuk, a prominent novelist who had offered his services as a negotiator in late 2000. Echoed Yucel Sayman, head of the Istanbul Bar Association: "Both sides have decided that death is the only solution." Local journalists say the public has lost heart and lost interest in the "death fast" and its cultish embrace of morbidity. The strikers appear to have mastered the science of dying, taking liquid and vitamins at a rate...