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When I left Tehran in 2002, after spending two years in the country my parents had left behind in the 1970s for the U.S., life was different. In many ways it was worse. After the U.S. Administration declared Iran part of an "axis of evil," the ruling clerics lashed out at home, enforcing social strictures with such vigor that we wouldn't leave parties without first chewing several pieces of gum to conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back...
...protector or a predator? No suspense there. But while the story adheres to fairy-tale contours, it constantly surprises with the richness of imaginative detail. The film begins in the soot and bustle of an old European city, with a design scheme both grim and dapper: even the evil blobs who chase Howl wear straw hats. The castle, which treads back roads on four Seussian legs, is a spectacular jumble of ship parts, old wooden houses and gigantic barrels. Palaces and shimmering lakes, warplanes and fire sprites all come to life at the breath of Miyazaki's graphic genius...
...remember 9/11? How you felt? The moral clarity of that day and the days thereafter? Just days after 9/11, on this very page, Lance Morrow wrote a brilliant, searing affirmation of right against wrong, good against evil...
...What a coincidence: almost exactly 60 years after the end of World War II in Europe, the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, is on TIME's cover. I imagine he is there not only to attract readers but also to symbolize that the once mighty "evil empire" eventually collapsed. May the Force stay with you. Arek Druzdzel Radom, Poland...
...women who get themselves in and out of trouble by sheer dint of will and excessive amounts of heart, and these women just happen to be lawyers. I write about murder and law because they encompass the great themes of fiction--love and hate, justice and injustice, good and evil. If you can write about such dramatic stuff, why would you write about anything else...