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...give a thumbs-down to the Bush Administration for the deplorable stain that is spreading further on what is left of the U.S.'s credibility. I do not know how the Secretary of State, the President and his entourage can think about their overpreached principles of democracy without blushing. Alex Crotta Montalto Dora, Italy...
...review of the Alex Katz show at the Whitney Museum in New York City [ART, April 14], Robert Hughes has let the art public know they have been duped. The Whitney retrospective is a further sign that in art, as in other forms of American life, we continue to pay homage to the mediocre. Glenn M. Corey Troy, Mich...
...Beirut, too, supporters of Gaddafi seemed keen to show off their thirst for vengeance. An extremist group called the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims sent a four-minute videotape to the Beirut daily AnNahar showing a blindfolded man dangling from a scaffold. The victim appeared to be Alex Collett, 64, a British journalist who had been kidnaped 13 months ago. A statement accompanying the tape claimed that Collett had been executed in answer to the American air attack, as had three hostages who were found shot in Beirut a week earlier...
...produce the first printed Bible and mix with the burghers of Amsterdam. While there is never a lack of assassins ready to throw the first stone, almost every generation encounters righteous gentiles without whom Jewish survival would have been impossible. Halter becomes an actor in the drama, much as Alex Haley did in Roots, piercing the narrative with his own meditations: "We are periodically asked to choose between the Land and the Book, as if our presence [in France] did not show that one can be faithful to both at once." These artless interludes serve to remind the reader that...
Viewers of Alex Gibney's film about Enron's collapse will not emerge from it with a comprehensive understanding of all the scams that the company's officers employed to drive the stock so high in the 1990s. Pawing through the paperwork is not what documentaries do best. This one, for instance, achieves its power by showing us the faces of Enron's leadership back when its genius was unquestioned...