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There's an old chestnut that says Japanese society is based on shame while Western society is grounded in guilt. Japanese people do the right thing, the theory goes, out of fear of social censure; Westerners navigate by a moral compass guided by absolute standards. The Thirteen Steps, a thoughtful new film by director Masahiko Nagasawa, shows that Japan is not so easily pigeonholed. Based on an award-winning detective novel by Kazuaki Takano, The Thirteen Steps wrestles with the thorny issues of capital punishment, personal redemption and the value of human life. Its heroes are driven by the quandary...
Roosevelt #2 came in and did something that, until then, I never thought I would see a Democrat do; he made appeals to black voters. However, the conservative South, the moral compass of the nation, successfully kept the meddling federal governments from outlawing their Sunday afternoon lynchings and allowing clearly undeserving blacks to benefit from New Deal programs...
...needs a reality compass and the reality needs art,” he says. “You won’t believe how utterly contemporary it is—the language is so vivid…15 minutes in you find yourself breathing differently. You appreciate [Euripides’] art, you really open your heart...
...White House says, is for the stock market and the old folks, and also, Bush stressed, because "double taxation is wrong." (The application of morality to fiscal policy is a relatively recent entry into the field of economics, but Bush seems to have a pretty steady moral compass for this sort of thing.) There was some other stuff, too: help for the jobless through unemployment-benefits extensions and funding state "re-employment" accounts, and some small-business breaks those folks have been after for a while...
...liking what they heard. The Pope strictly applied church doctrine, noted TIME, "to trouble the living stream of modernity," to excoriate self-indulgent and often tawdry secularism. He took unpopular stands on such issues as abortion and the ordination of women. Nonetheless, his unyielding rectitude made him "a moral compass for believers and nonbelievers alike...