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...George struggle to find a place for themselves in a world which disdains them. Lennie, a hulking giant with the mind and heart of a child, is prey to the cruelty of other's prejudice. Lennie's true Achille's heel, however, is his ignorance of his own brute strength. His physical power both builds and destroys his relationship with George. Herein lies the tragic contradiction of the film...
...George struggle to find a place for themselves in a world which disdains them. Lennie, a hulking giant with the mind and heart of a child, is prey to the cruelty of other's prejudice. Lennie's true Achille's heel, however, is his ignorance of his own brute strength. His physical power both builds and destroys his relationship with George. Herein lies the tragic contradiction of the film...
...Muslim fanatic portrayed in Serbian propaganda, Rugova, 47, seems an unlikely nationalist leader. A Paris-educated Ph.D. in linguistics, he explains, "I opted for nonviolence because there has been too much violence in the Balkans. But since the war in Slovenia and Bosnia, Serbian ideology is one of brute force. Nonviolence may become absurd in these circumstances." The Kosovars harbor the dangerous conviction that the U.S. and Europe will help them win independence from Serbia -- the same conviction once held by moderates in Bosnia. But because Kosovo has never been an independent republic and is technically part of Serbia, Western...
British diplomats, though, hope the conference will at least begin a process of negotiation eventually leading to a partition into ethnic cantons such as Lebanon's -- not because they like it but because they see no other way to stop the war. The brute fact is that the Serbs have won on the ground; reversing that victory would require military intervention far beyond anything any Western power will even consider. For all the relief efforts, Hogg warned Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic two weeks ago that he could not hope for military help to save the remaining Muslim areas from Serbian...
...Derrah, he portrays to perfectiona wimp with a social conscience. He is a walkingcontradiction, unable to reconcile his need to"affirm his manhood" with his belief in theequality of the sexes. Royal E. Miller, playingthe aviator Joey Percival is also riveting, as hetreads the fine line between gentleman and brute...