Word: combatative
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...narration that spells out what has already been so eloquently shown. As a director, Stone does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire storm of death in combat. But nowadays, when directors aim for the predictably cute or gross, these spurts are tonic. They prove that someone out there, working from the mind and gut, is willing to put both aggressively onscreen. So Platoon is different. It matters...
...Gates has said he is likely to ask President Bush for several thousand more American troops augment the 24,000 already there, and Washington is pressing NATO allies to provide more troops of their own - and in some cases, to ease restrictions on those forces being deployed in the combat zone in the south...
...subjects. But what sticks in my mind most is the passage from Another Day of Life containing both a confession of the shortcomings Kapuscinski saw in his own work and an excoriation of those who sent others into the battles he witnessed: "The world contemplates the great spectacle of combat and death, which is difficult for it to imagine in the end, because the image of war is not communicable-not by the pen, or the voice, or the camera. War is a reality only to those stuck in its bloody, dreadful, filthy insides. To others it is pages...
...Tyrant's Tawdry End "Saddam's second life" [Jan. 15] described the brutal indignity of Saddam's hanging. As a Christian, I don't think that we have to combat barbarity with more savagery. The execution, as I see it, was an act more of revenge and hatred than of real justice. The U.S. can't repair the historical errors of the partitioning of Middle Eastern countries by choosing who should rule them now. We Westerners are not the moral cream of the crop, and our arrogant meddling will only bring more turmoil, particularly in this sensitive region. Etienne Ribagnac...
William C. Marra ’07 Guest predictor: President To combat declining use of the Women’s Center, Harvard will move the infant organization into the basement of the Fox. Attendance will skyrocket...