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...Dear seekers of light summer entertainment, you have gathered that Bergman's film is not Shrek 2 or Wedding Crashers. It's more like Shriek 42 or Marriage Crushers. To moviegoers raised in the Age of Facetiousness, a dead-serious story about the pain people maliciously or clumsily inflict on themselves and one another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh...
...Russian joke has Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev having a smoke with U.S. President Richard Nixon and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Nixon produces a steel cigarette case inscribed with the words "To our leader, from the GOP." Giscard opens a silver case bearing the simple inlay "To my dear Valery." Brezhnev shrugs and flips open a massive gold case, with the inscription set in diamonds: "To our beloved Czar Nicolas II, from the grateful Russian gentry...
...morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words "To my dear Jacques." Not to be outdone, Putin silently produces a white-gold ring, studded with diamonds shaped to read: "World Champions...
...most disturbing statement in the story is at the end--"in the war on terrorism, the personal dignity of a fanatic trained for mass murder may be an inevitable casualty." Actually, it is the rule of law, and all the values Americans hold dear, that is the casualty of crude illogic like that. Who says al-Qahtani is a terrorist or a fanatic bent on mass murder? He has never been charged with or tried for any crime. He is legally innocent until proved guilty. Anyone who scoffs at that does not take seriously bedrock constitutional principles...
Sarah M. Seltzer ’05 was Magazine Chair of The Harvard Crimson in 2004. She was a dear friend of the late Paul F. Gilligan III ’05, and her brother Daniel L. Seltzer ’05 was Gilligan’s roommate...