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...awful particulars of the case: "Now ain't the time for your tears." At the end, he spits out the judge's obscenely lenient decision: "And handed out strongly for penalty and repentance, / William Zanzinger with a six months' sentence." Dylan's message: Don't weep for one blameless soul brutally, thoughtlessly killed; weep for the system that, after due consideration, shrugs away a rich white man's murder of a poor black woman. "Now's the time for your tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...Holy Innocents--honoring children murdered by the evil King Herod--Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that the embryo is a "full and complete" human being, despite being "shapeless." If you are going to call a fetus' termination murder, then it seems somehow inconsistent to deny heaven to the blameless, full and complete victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Limbo | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...work, which swept the European Film Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Director and Editing) this month, is both an exercise in motal suspense and an essay on the complicity between those who create disturbing images (moviemakers) and those who take pleasure from looking at them (us). Georges is not as blameless as he seems; his long-suppressed memories of an incident from his youth lead him into a labyrinth of personal and political guilt, and a confrontation startling in its violence. Till the very end of the film, the very last shot, you may ask, Yes, but whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Corliss' Top Films of the Year | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place, the truth will come flooding through. In a democracy, citizens are guilty of the sins of their leaders because voters chose them. We cannot pretend we are blameless. We elected them, and we are just as guilty as they are. But now we have a chance to start over again by ousting those who so badly misused the power we gave them. (The Rev.) Bill McGinnis Alexandria, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...Administration to drag us into the senseless, totally unjustified war in Iraq. Now that the wall has been broken in one place, the truth will come flooding through. In a democracy, citizens are guilty of the sins of their leaders because voters chose them. We cannot pretend we are blameless. We elected them, and we are just as guilty as they are. But now we have a chance to start over again by ousting those who so badly misused the power we gave them. (The Rev.) Bill McGinnis Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. The American people are fed up with the Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save a Life | 11/26/2005 | See Source »

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