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Monica mania is no longer a secret hoarded by European cinephiles. In this year's avidly awaited sequels to The Matrix, she plays Persephone, Queen of the Virtual World. She will be Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's Jesus film, The Passion. But why wait? Tears, a smart, sturdy war film with a lot of heart and a little cleavage, opens this week. And in the art houses there's more, much more of Bellucci in Gaspar Noe's defiantly lurid Irreversible, in which, for nine minutes, her character endures the most brutal rape scene in movie history...
More recently, in the CRASH-B sprints, sophomore heavyweight Aaron Holzapfel, a devout Christian, jokingly rowed under the name Kevin McHale of the “Live For Jesus Always” Club...
...Jesus is the only thing worth living, rowing and dying for,” Holzapfel said...
...course, Jesus would never have rowed—he walked on water. Nonetheless, Holzapfel’s comments got me thinking. Athletes are often criticized for thanking God. Is this criticism justified...
...such as Harvard, where political correctness and cultural sensitivity are all the rage, how can everyone get away with insulting the Midwest all the time? What is it with the use of Middle America as a synonym for the unenlightened? Yeah, people in the Midwest hunt and pray to Jesus Christ, but that doesn’t mean that the region is full of low-brow hicks. My experience with people at Harvard is that they apply stereotypes to the Midwest in ways that they would be outrageously offended by if the same kind of simple-minded stereotypes were applied...