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...richly deserved prizes to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" (the first foreign-language film to win for Animated Feature) and Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since "A Man and a Woman in 1967). But this is a time of charnel conflict, so the newshawk in me (news dove, really) is obliged to look at the bigger picture of the 75th award ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I have to ask: What if they gave a war and everyone looked ... faaaaaabulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Goes to War — Not! | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...tied to the stilled remnants of the German Jewish community. He did not hazard the baseness of memorializing the dead at the place of their annihilation. What could a memorial at Auschwitz do but divert us from Auschwitz? There are reasons we do not place gravestones in the charnel pits...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, | Title: Monumental Error | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...millions of vegetarians, beef is a four-letter word; veal summons charnel visions of infanticide. Many children, raised on hit films like Babe and Chicken Run, recoil from eating their movie heroes and switch to what the meat defeaters like to call a "nonviolent diet." Vegetarianism resolves a conscientious person's inner turf war by providing an edible complex of good-deed-doing: to go veggie is to be more humane. Give up meat, and save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We All Be Vegetarians? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...nations of the Old World to keep their snouts away from the feeding troughs of the New? Or--less happily--is the analogy to Woodrow Wilson's determination to make the world safe for democracy, a crusade disavowed at home and mocked abroad and whose ending was the greatest charnel house the world has ever known? History tells us this at least: when nations take upon themselves a global responsibility to rid the world of a shameful practice, they had better prepare for the long haul. In the early 19th century, it took the British navy the better part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Will Not Fail | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...think, like Daniel Goldhagen of Hitler’s Willing Executioners fame, that killing your neighbor is a uniquely Deutsche phenomenon, then maybe you’d like to be introduced to all the conquered European peoples who happily set about shipping their Jews off to the Nazi charnel houses. Or to Stalin’s Russians, Pol Pot’s Cambodians, Idi Amin’s Ugandans, and so on, ad infinitum...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: McVeigh and the 'Problem' of Evil | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

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