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...York City. Over the course of his career, the pugnacious, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist wrote extensively--and often empathically--about the city's police for the New York Daily News and the New York Post. But he was no apologist: in 1997 he broke the story of a brutal police beating of a Haitian immigrant...
...look to the athletic arena for heroes. No ancient Greek dramaturge would turn his back on material like this: one man tested in crisis; the victor emergent from the sweat and roil of combat; gifted with superhuman size and godlike strength; and, perhaps most important, confronted with the brutal and inescapable vulnerability that all great athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids and our neighbors' kids to absorb: diligent...
...resigned on the House floor because of his own adulteries, and the air over Baghdad exploded. So did the air over Washington, where the constant outcry over sex, lies, desperation and hypocrisy had created an atmosphere of venom and mayhem. All around the city there was a feeling that brutal, lasting damage had been done to an already threadbare culture of political accommodation, that impeachment would be not the end of something but the beginning. And that it would be something...
...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN The director of Schindler's List surely knows that World War II was morally necessary. So it is a measure of Steven Spielberg's maturity that by opening Saving Private Ryan with what may be the most unforgettably brutal sequence in the history of war movies--his astonishing re-creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue...
...NAPA It's a shed. A 300-ft.-long two-story shed sheathed in rocks that are held together with the gabion system--a technique used to hold up embankments on highways. But despite its stony visage, this winery, designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & De Meuron, is less brutal than brut-worthy and sits well in the Napa landscape. Once inside, visitors find the stony exterior becomes a playful moire that lets in shards of light. The stones are transformed, just like the grapes within each cask...