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...This degrades the standards of elemental decency, let alone abdicating the quest for truth,” Wisse wrote in an e-mail. “I do not think that Harvard should have given Khatami a pulpit unless it was to abjectly apologize...
...surprised to learn that there is no definitive manuscript of Marco Polo's book about his travels, and that all existing versions have been embellished, doctored or censored by the Christian establishment over the years. I thank you for revealing the truth without prejudice against the civilization of the East. Yoshitsugu Kato Gifu City, Japan...
...ACCURACY OVER IDEOLOGY The press might have less difficulty withholding the details of ongoing national-security programs if it were not distracted by the grandiose notion that it must "speak truth to power" [July 10]. A better objective would be to provide accurate and useful information. That may not sound as exciting, but it is a clearer conception of what the public needs. Clay Boswell New York City...
Given such grim news five years after 9/11, it is all too easy to conclude that the Bush doctrine is a bust--that, at best, it has been ineffectual and that, at worst, it has actually exacerbated the woes it was meant to address. In truth, it is far too soon to judge the results of the President's grand strategy of transforming the Middle East, which is still in its early stages and which has never been pursued as ardently as his more grandiose rhetoric might suggest...
...night, Head On was powered by an artistic urgency-a whirling dervish of emotion, with some audiences complaining of motion sickness. With her latest film, The Book of Revelation, Kokkinos follows. As suggested by the Biblical title it shares with Rupert Thomson's novel, it's all about divining truth from life's inherent mysteries. And for much of the film's two hours, time stops as audiences are asked to stand in the shoes of dancer Daniel (Tom Long), whose nightmare performance seems never-ending and all too real: on the day of his new production's opening night...