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...extreme instance of this made headlines, including Sunday’s New York Times article on the end-of-life issues surrounding the personal struggle involved in a patient’s fight to continue living in the face of severe illness. Patients with the opposite temperament—those who no longer want to fight and end their lives—have also garnered national media attention. Here it’s clearest that the community of citizens within liberal democracy becomes a house divided over the question of whether society should leave man free to destroy himself. This...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: The End of History Redux | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...taken to Argos after his adoptive family is killed by Hades.  The film continues as a quest tale as Perseus travels to defeat various demons, monsters, and mythical creatures accompanied by his team of rag-tag misfits, including four soldiers either too young or too old to fight, two wacky ethnic hunters, a magical man made of living tree bark, and a mysterious immortal who has watched Perseus since birth...

Author: By Nicholas P. Castaneda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clash of the Titans | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...makes up the worst and most entertaining parts of the film.  With gems such as, “You’re not just part man and part god, you’re the best of both,” and “We live, we fight, we die for each other,” one cannot keep from being entertained...

Author: By Nicholas P. Castaneda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clash of the Titans | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...Mussolini’s lover—and self-proclaimed spouse—Ida Dalser and the emotional and psychological torture she endures as a result of being swept under the rug. In this chilling account, Ida’s resolve and sanity are tested as she attempts to fight the unified powers of Il Duce’s regime...

Author: By Francis E. Cambronero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vincere | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...common mistake for great powers to assume that those whom they engage as proxies to fight their battles or run their satrapies share the same agenda as their patrons just because their interests coincide at a given moment. But not all of Karzai's enemies in the region are America's enemies, and not all of America's allies are Karzai's allies. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Pakistan, the original patron of the Taliban, which has also been going through the motions of indulging American concerns while continuing to enable the Afghan Taliban insurgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Why Karzai Is Pushing Back Against the U.S. | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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