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...natural to desire the death penalty, but humane and just to abolish it. ERIK A. BEACH '02 JOEL G. THOMAS...
...days later, I toured the University of California, Santa Barbara, where palm trees shaded benches and beach sand dusted the campus network of bike paths. I saw Roller Girl en route to class. UCSB had nothing to do with my cold, stuffy college. No comparison possible...
...sanctity of the "rule of law." Ruff's voice trembled as he turned that appeal back on its author. "I have no personal experience with war," he said quietly. "I have only visited Normandy as a tourist. But I do know this: my father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago, and I know how he would feel if he were here today. He didn't fight, no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought, as all those did, for our country and our Constitution. As long as each of us--a manager...
...have a romantic comedy where the boy didn't get the girl," Stoppard explains. "This troubled people, but the whole point was that the experience led him to write the greatest love tragedy of all time, not the greatest love comedy." Instead of that final shot of the beach, he says, "I shouldn't be telling you these things, but in my first go I had a sort of ghostly Manhattan in my mind as she walked off--but that was a ghostly skyscraper...
...most people's lives, high drama is not an asteroid heading for Earth or a battle on Omaha Beach. It is the agony and suspense in an intimate conversation. Do you love me? Have you betrayed me? Will you leave me? The answers to those questions make the heart soar or sink; they leave lasting marks on the soul, like a trophy or a gravestone. Years later, we look back and think: from that moment, everything was different. Yet movies rarely touch on this form of domestic convulsion. They offer escapism--not just from daily drudgery but from our most...