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...Boston Phoenix's Peter Keough considers the series exemplary of films that "explore rather than exploit sex and violence." After-film talks will provide the opportunity for audience members to begin to untangle this certainly debatable distinction. But perhaps the question of whether the films exploit their subjects at the expense of deeper meaning is less interesting that how the works make us feel. Emotion, rather than the intellect, seems to drive both proponents of risky cinema and its detractors...
...atonement--and plenty of moderate blacks who saw in the march a desperately needed chance for spiritual renewal clearly were tempted--Farrakhan made it impossible. In an interview released late last week he repeated some of his favorite calumnies against the Jews--"bloodsuckers," as he called them, who exploit blacks and "were involved in the slave trade." When asked if he himself would seek atonement for such remarks, Farrakhan escaped into double-talk. "I cannot atone for what the press has said that I said that I didn't say, nor can I atone for your failure to accept...
Popular elections in the late 19th century--a period well known for its political machines and corruption--faced an unusual problem. A large number of eligible voters were illiterate; they simply could not read the ballots. Corrupt party members often attempted to exploit this illiteracy by disguising their ballot to look like the other party's ballot. For example, Democrats would print ballots with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, so those unsuspecting and illiterate might suppose that they were voting Republican...
...problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help...
...destroyed the forests of Siberia, rather than greed, which is the real suspect? If destruction was caused by greed, wouldn't that mean capitalism? You should have mentioned how the U.S. is destroying its own forests and that U.S.-based companies are rushing into the former Soviet Union to exploit its natural resources. TRACY BRIEN San Francisco Via E-mail