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...certain that Schlink's novel or this film makes that connection explicit. Both have obligations to melodramatic plotting and characterization that to a degree blur the inherent point of the exercise. In the end, Hanna's defense of her crime - she allowed most of her prisoners to die in a fire in a church (hard to imagine a more obvious choice of crime scene) - comes down to, well, yes, what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil...
...experts remain mindful of the terrible toll disease and war take on the world's children, but a lot less attention is paid to how many kids are claimed each year by accident and injury. Part of that is a numbers game: 10 million children ages 5 and under die annually of disease, while fewer than a million - 829,000 - die from accidents. Still, that's 2,270 children every day, all year, who won't get a chance to grow up. The World Health Organization (WHO) just released its first annual report on the problem, listing the five leading...
...Die in Detroit With an entire region depending on the automobile industry, it is almost impossible for politicians to vote against another financial bailout [Nov. 24]. There is just too much at stake. Yet this is a crucial moment for car manufacturing, and governments have to ensure that auto giants like GM are aware they have to radically change their ways. Carmakers must be obliged to commit to developing greener technology, while U.S. carmakers in general have to finally realize that the big cars they have been building for decades are no longer what people want. Sebastian Sommer, GREUSSENHEIM, GERMANY...
This is where I’m going to drop the Jew card. As a half-Jew on the side that doesn’t really make me Jewish, I am deeply offended that ABP has no dreidle or Antiochus IV Epiphanes shaped cookies. I’ll die a happy Few (fake Jew) the day that I attend an Ugly Hanukkah Sweater party. Believe me, there are plenty of Jews out there with grotesque sweaters knitted by their Grandma Harriets and Aunt Ednas...
...think of the world over, more people die of infections than of any other disease, and they die in countries which don’t have as much importance globally,” Hasaan said...