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...smaller audiences may not be directly translatable to the big networks; its most popular programs, reruns of Futurama and Family Guy, first appeared on Fox and were canceled. But it suggests that those missing young men want surprises, not 15 more cop procedurals. Will the floundering networks take the lesson? Sure. When French fries talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Hey, Look! Manimation | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Morris divides The Fog of War into 11 sections, each examining a different lesson to learn from McNamara’s life. But the lesson that best explains the film is one that Morris leaves unstated: Actions and the people responsible for them are not as easily explained as one may think...

Author: By Peter Zuckerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Morris Turns Lens on McNamara | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

Moreover, he argues that in order to do good you may have to engage in evil (the film’s ninth lesson). But the evil should be as limited as possible, he stresses, noting that proportionality should be a guide in war (lesson five...

Author: By Peter Zuckerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Morris Turns Lens on McNamara | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...film’s final lesson is that human nature cannot be changed. Morris, who said that the lessons gleaned from his interviews with McNamara were far more optimistic than his own views, preferred to take the lessons a step further. “I have a much simpler view,” he explained. “My view is we’re fucked...

Author: By Peter Zuckerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Morris Turns Lens on McNamara | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...referendum next month on whether he should continue to govern. "If Roh approves any deployment," says Lee Seung Hun of the Democratic Labor Party, which currently supports Roh, "I can guarantee he'll find the rest of his presidency unbearable." The U.S. is being forced to relearn an old lesson in Asia: all politics are local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Sorry, Rummy | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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