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...Shoichi Nakagawa is correct when he says, of the ongoing disputes over historical controversies such the "comfort women," that "America has got nothing to do with this." But six decades later, the onus remains on Tokyo to apologize to Asia. If nothing else, it's just good...
...have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind. . . . Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers...." Ebert's take on this exchange: "Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize.... As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks...
...Brzezinski, National Security Adviser under President Jimmy Carter, says, that U.S.-Israeli policy "put a lot of pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, which helped to radicalize them without any compensatory relaxation for the Palestinians on the West Bank." The U.S.'s new "West Bank first" strategy aims to correct that shortcoming, but given the Palestinians' defiant mood, the tardy gift could turn into a nasty surprise for Abbas. Robert Malley, a Middle East expert with the International Crisis Group, says that "we've lost so much credibility among Palestinians that the people we try to help, we hurt...
...innocence. Ads like "Think Small" and Avis' "We Try Harder" don't seem shocking now, but they stood out then because they made virtues of limitations. More broadly, they sold the idea that the surface assumptions of a cocky nation--e.g., that biggest was best--weren't necessarily correct. Whereas hit TV at the time was simple, credulous and guileless: westerns, Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas...
...story of my life as a filmmaker. I went to Walter Reed hospital three years ago; the mainstream media didn't deal with it until just a few months ago... They came around to [realize] what I was saying on that Oscar stage, in Fahrenheit 9/11, was correct...