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...Salles, who just finished directing Mexico's new heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, in a film version of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries. That means less predictable storytelling. Even though Carrera's Crime of Father Amaro is a well-worn story of clerical lust and hypocrisy, its moral center is as inscrutable as Mexico itself. We hope the young priest Amaro (played by Bernal) will be heroically redeemed when he rejects celibacy; but that pat expectation gets turned on its ear. Devising an un-Hollywood ending, says Carrera, 40, "was for me one of the most attractive things...
Pacifists cannot opt out of the portion of their taxes that is allotted for the military in an effort to morally oppose war. Neither should pro-life students be able to opt out of a portion of the Health Services fee as a means of championing their stance. UHS should reform its policy to preserve fairness and HRL should seek other measures to express their moral opposition to abortion...
...Robert Coles ’50, Agee Professor of Social Ethics. “We desperately needed to pay people who had written for us and whose pictures we’d used.” The situation, he says, “had put us in a moral bind...
This explanation is particularly apt. The mission DoubleTake set forth in its first issue was a profoundly moral one—and in their determination to fulfill it, the editors had assumed an almost messianic stance regarding the sanctity of their message. But even non-profit enterprises are eventually called to account for their financial solvency, and DoubleTake’s provisional approach to the issue has more than once jeopardized the medium of their message...
...projecting its lessons, Coles says, “I would leave that for our readers to decide. We hope and try to live up to that vision, and that example…If I start answering that for you, I’m undermining the very philosophical and moral purpose of the magazine...