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...gone nuts. As rock mantras go, this has all the sex appeal of "Get off my lawn!" But millions have been moved to heights of ecstasy by Radiohead's calls for prudence, in part because Yorke usually provides a few reassuring words amidst his condemnation of technology, government and evil corporations, and in part because Radiohead can really bring the noise...
This isn't a terrific film; it's a murmuring, meandering study with an apocalyptic punch line. But the corpses strewing the school corridors don't make the movie anti-American, any more than Hamlet is anti-Danish. Elephant depicts evil, and the ordinary people who, through bad luck, get in its way. --By Richard Corliss
This report was a revisionist attack on aspects of America's successful policy of containing the Soviet Union over a period of some 40 years. In implementing that policy, the U.S. government did not always have perfectly clean hands, but it was struggling against a regime as evil as those of Hitler, Saddam Hussein and maybe Mao combined. So the U.S. manipulated foreign governments! So what? Which do Barlett and Steele believe was the better option--giving in to the Soviets, or nuclear war? PHILLIP HAWLEY Galliate Lombardo, Italy...
Your story on the mini-series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs...
...website run by the Procuratorial Daily, the newspaper of China's prosecutor's office, last year published a review of her case in which doctors were warned not to comply with police seeking expedient ways of incarcerating undesirables. "Medical staff are an essential link in the chain of evil that produces these abuses, and this should not be forgotten when allocating blame and punishment," the review stated. So far, no punishment has been allocated. Late last month, the World Psychiatric Association took China to task in an unusual statement calling on the country to allow international experts to investigate allegations...