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John le Carre: On the new cloak-and-daggers...
This is not to say that Anita Hill was not sexually harassed, nor is it to say that the hearings were not entertaining. But none of these accusations, rebuttals and simply irrelevant statements could cloak the fact that Thomas was not the most qualified person for the highest bench in the land. Nor could they mask the truth: Thomas was both nominated and attacked out of purely political motives. If we are ever to have another Justice chosen for legal scholarship and not political palatability, this partisan poisoning of the process must stop...
Perhaps such mini-fellowships are a good idea; they need to be debated on their merits. It is profoundly dishonest, however, to cloak this subsidy with the mantle of benefiting the students...
Holland does not cloak that riddle as well as she might, and her variation on the Martin Guerre (or Sommersby) theme is predictable. But as she showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...
Even if it can't meet that lofty standard, the department needs to avoid the ethical lapses that have hurt its reputation during the past dozen years. Many of the most embarrassing episodes have occurred when the department has protected political interests under the cloak of national security. A sampling...