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...publicizing medium for the propaganda of a dying movement, the New People's Army (N.P.A.) [Feb. 5]. Your photos tried to conjure an image of the N.P.A. rebels as Spartan revolutionaries, although most Filipinos know them to be bandits who survive through pillaging, extortion and coercion. And, oh yes, through naive media people. Isabelo Gatmaitan Manila
...stereotype of the stiff-upper-lip Brit, unflappable in the face of crisis, but there's not a hint of condescension or satire. Yes, the young commander of the company, the competent, hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened--supposing...
...Yes, I've crossed in many places: Juárez, Tijuana, Tecate. It's sort of a ritual of humiliation. You get asked questions you don't know how to answer because they're ridiculous, like "Where do you come from?" I'm, like, "Are you serious? From Mexico. Where else...
...dustup aggravated old, sometimes ugly, tensions between Christians and Hollywood--including, yes, that one. "It is an evident and clear truth that Jews control Hollywood productions," wrote a respondent to a post on the New York Times' the Lede blog, while others made anti-Semitic insinuations about Israeli-born Tomb director Simcha Jacobovici. Meanwhile, in a debate following the TIME.com blog post that reported first word of the documentary, some defenders of the film taunted Christians as "weak and defeated...
Rachel, my 10-year-old daughter, didn't think twice when asked to be one of 3,000 beta testers for Kajeet, a new mobile-phone service for kids. "Oh, my god, yes!" she said. She made her first call from a local Italian restaurant, blithely disregarding wireless etiquette. "Guess what?" she said to her grandparents. "I have my own cell phone." Their reaction? "Why do you need that...