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...darkest days of the Iraq war, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a mission to restore order. Could she possibly bring peace to Iraq and mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without admitting the Bush Administration's mistakes? Readers fear it may already be too late to change course...
...documentary called Nanking, premiered at Sundance in January and will be screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in late March. It tells the story of a handful of American and European expatriates who established a neutral safety zone to protect some 200,000 Nanjing residents during the conflict. The film is the brainchild of Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner), who had chanced upon Chang's obituary in a yellowing newspaper while on holiday in the Caribbean. "It shocked me, one, that I didn't know anything about this incident...
...planned international tour is evidence of the director's belief that much of the planet could do with a little truth and reconciliation. Lessac has chosen to stage his play in "conflict and healing zones around the world," he says, places "where people still might not be able to let go of thoughts of victimhood, entitlement, vengeance and denial." He's talking of places like Kosovo or Jerusalem - or Somalia, where civil war between hundreds of clans has raged for 16 years and where it takes many minutes for strangers to introduce themselves, so intricate are the ethnic lineages that...
...soldiers in Journey's End may be as doomed as the Japanese men who make a last stand in the caves of Iwo Jima. And the conflict they're caught up in may be as futile as the one Americans are wrestling with in 2007. But Sherriff's great play has no truck with anything as lofty as patriotism or sacrifice or even conscience. After it's all over, the bacon is still frying...
Likewise--without judging the validity of religion--the great religious texts of history are compelling in part because they are, well, Hollywood: that is, great stories with conflict, pathos and magic. A man steals fire from the gods; a father is commanded to kill his son; gods disguise themselves as animals...