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...movie that's not an antiwar movie. 300 turns the ugliest human spectacle imaginable into something beautiful, and it's to the movie's credit that it doesn't confuse what it's doing with anything real. Onscreen, death actually has meaning that it often lacks in life. Conflict isn't complicated. Motivation is clear. "With 300, the why is obvious," Snyder says, "and that's a thing that maybe doesn't even exist in real life. Maybe when it happened it wasn't even that clear. That's why it's a piece of mythology. It's what...
Last week, two notorious speakers were invited to Cambridge to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At MIT, Dovid Weiss, a leader of the tiny, rabidly anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism known as "Neturei Karta," participated in a panel sponsored by several student groups as well as by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. And at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor at DePaul University, spoke at an event sponsored by the Palestine Awareness Committee, the Society of Arab Students, and other campus groups...
Both of these speakers are no strangers to controversy and represent fringe views among the general public. Indeed, if peace is really the goal of student and University-sponsored discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one wonders what either of these antagonistic speakers even contribute to the debate...
...little upset at me right now. We’ve spoken once,” he says of Gahr. “I’m hoping we’ll still be friends.”But he’s quick to note that their conflict was largely a figment of the producers’ imaginations.“Even though Cecille is portrayed negatively on the show, in some ways she’s the most honest one,” Dern says. “A lot of what Cecille said, I agreed with. It?...
...HUAM isn’t the only HUAM-friendly group on campus, and one might have expected some conflict to stir in the background of the event. But instead, harmony reigned...