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When TV provokes a philosophical argument about evil, the subject matter isn't usually more profound than Rob's treachery on Survivor. But CBS tapped deeper passions when it announced its flagship mini-series for the May sweeps: a biography of the young Adolf Hitler from adolescence through his rise to power. Jewish leaders charged that the mini-series might make Hitler sympathetic, by showing him out of the context of the Holocaust, or blame his evil on an unhappy youth. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd suggested that the network was using the project to court young viewers...
...Jenin. Hassan allows neither Israeli nor Palestinian to be seen purely as victim. "Before I criticize Israel, I should look at myself," says Hassan, 43. "We're not saints, but Israelis also can't be allowed to believe that they're saints who are somehow forced to do evil things." A year ago, Hassan drove down from the hills around Nazareth, heading for Tel Aviv. On the plain near Afula, he watched columns of Israeli tanks moving toward Jenin. At night, he could see the explosions in the camp. Palestinian leaders claimed Israel had massacred as many as 500 civilians...
...protect his family. "Some consider this excessive relativizing," Hrebejk says. "But this is how I see people. Tragicomedy and ambivalence are part of life." Screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, a high school classmate of Hrebejk's who wrote all of his features, puts it this way: "We all knew how evil the system was, but we all had to make our pact with it. In a sense it wasn't about being part of the system or not. Most were. It was about not becoming an asshole. It was, 'Can I still bear seeing myself in the mirror?'" Hrebejk isn't sure...
...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...
...much for China's much-touted new era of openness. For decades, countryside leaders have adhered to a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil approach to crises that has been largely accepted by a pliant populace. But with a deadly disease potentially exploding in the provinces, some of China's 800 million farmers are finally acting out, threatening the social stability that the nation's leaders have long considered their No. 1 priority. Last week, as peasants learned that outsiders possibly exposed to the SARS virus would be quarantined in their hometowns without the locals' consent or knowledge, riots erupted...