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Dershowitz, an outspoken critic of Finkelstein and no stranger to controversy himself, admitted to making such overtures, but said that his requests were not intended to bar the book’s publication entirely. Rather, he says, he tried to encourage the press to give “serious consideration” to publishing Finkelstein’s charge that Dershowitz did not actually write, and may not have even read, one of his own books, “The Case for Israel”—an accusation that Dershowitz calls “a clear, willful...
...retirement after Fanny), is a chamber piece: four characters, 10 dialogues. Yet Bergman, who turns 87 this month, gives the story such vigor and rigor, so much emotional bile and spilled blood, that it would shame a much younger director. Here is no mild afterthought to which a critic nods indulgently. This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as Saraband proves, he still...
Still, Hustle & Flow wins a critic's and an audience's rooting interest. It boasts a seductive lead performance and the best ensemble cast since Ray. It has a palpable sense of place; every frame reveals the heat and heart of Memphis. The film may be more like Rocky the club fighter than Rocky the box-office champ, but as people keep saying here, "Everybody gotta have a dream." One would be that the Hollywood factory starts financing movies like this--handmade and homegrown. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...June 19 were supposed to herald a new era of independence from Syrian control. But the killing of another prominent anti-Syrian figure has overshadowed the opposition's success in securing a majority in the new parliament. George Hawi, a former secretary-general of the Communist Party and a critic of Syria's domination of Lebanon, died when a bomb exploded beneath his Mercedes in a busy Beirut street. Hawi was the second anti-Syrian activist to die in June, and many in Lebanon blame the murders on Syria and its allies in the Lebanese intelligence services, though Syria denies...
...DIED. CARDINAL JAIME SIN, 76, powerful Philippine Roman Catholic leader and political figure; in Manila. Named Archbishop of Manila in 1973, a year after former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Cardinal Sin became an outspoken critic of the authoritarian government. His influence over the Philippines' devoutly Catholic population helped spark the People Power protests that toppled two presidents?Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in 2001. "Politics without Christ is the greatest scourge of our nation," Cardinal Sin said at his 2003 retirement ceremony...