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Must a hero also be a saint? If a man performs valorous acts in one context, does ambiguity in other areas of his life negate those achievements? Such questions are at the heart of a seething controversy and court case over competing versions of the story of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who risked his job, his family and his life to save an estimated 10,000 Jews during World...
...boxes of e-mail that began arriving in March that made the case. In early spring Spitzer confronted Merrill with the evidence. Merrill complained that they had been taken out of context but appeared willing to settle. What Merrill didn't want was having everything made public. That's where it underestimated Spitzer's resolve. He held out for disclosure and on April 8 filed an investigative action against Merrill. That day he held a press conference and released the most egregious of the e-mail...
...administration should censure homosexual activity. I have heard homophobes use the words “immoral,” “unnatural” and “perverted” before, but I never thought I would hear a Harvard student use such language in this context. And I certainly never expected to hear a student recommend that homosexuals be punished for their sexual orientation...
...earlier works: "Hero is a genre piece. Its message is very simple, but it breaks ground visually. The audience will remember the aesthetics more than the story. Its message is a message of peace. But there's nothing particularly exciting about that message unless it's taken in the context of the genre, where it's something new. But, really, the audience won't be there for the ideas; they'll mainly appreciate the spectacle...
...Here, color creates context. Each story Nameless tells is draped in a different hue: gray, red, blue, white, green. (In the fifth episode, a lake shimmers like lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black, for death...