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Alexander, dead more than two millenniums, may appear a remote subject for this agit-historian, whose docudramas have ventured no further into the past than the last mid-century. But the new movie has plenty of contemporary reverberations. This Alexander is a clear model for George W. Bush, pursuing destiny or delusion from the civilized West into Babylon-Baghdad, completing the quest George H.W. Bush left unfinished. Warned that this "was not your father's mission," the young king replies, "And I am not my father...
...Alexander could be Stone--a crafty-crazy visionary who legendarily drives himself, his crew and his films through chaos and into creativity. In this shadow autobiography, Alexander's India is Stone's Vietnam, the land where he fought in the infantry and the subject of so many of his films. In the battle scenes in India, trained elephants materialize as if in a Nam soldier's dope dream, and the screen goes red. At this moment of hallucinogenic hyperdrama, the camera almost literally has blood...
...lead teachers and administrators through a cultural-competency course that fosters an appreciation for the perspectives of students and colleagues from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Separately, teachers at Pioneer High organized a faculty reading club to discuss books about race in hopes of making their colleagues more comfortable with the subject. "When we started, people avoided me in the hallways," says Amy Deller, a white science teacher who recruited members and leads the group. "But now colleagues grab me to have conversations...
...women treat the narrative form differently than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community...
Gonzales later requested a legal opinion from a Justice Department agency that ultimately argued that subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in captivity to extreme stress "may be justified." When abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light last spring, some Administration critics cited that memo as the legal backbone for the harsher treatment of prisoners, which is now the subject of court-martial proceedings...