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...worm’s e-mails could even be endearing, in their way. It warmed my heart to receive an utterly unprompted flood of notes from administrators of the Divinity School expressing their “Re: RE: Re: Thanks” and Harvard minsters inquiring my opinion of “FWD: Re: That Movie! (fwd),” even if the messages themselves were brief. When it wasn’t Harvard officials brightening my day in Pine, I discovered a slew of messages from people as far away as Germany—and who doesn?...
...factions and threatened to carry the violence to a terrible new level. A senior Israeli military official retorted that all Hamas leaders are equally at risk: "We don't distinguish between military and political levels in Hamas." Meanwhile, Hamas leaders went underground after calling for "Jewish blood to flood in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa." Alas, there is no road map for where that kind of talk can lead. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Jamil Hamad/Amman and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, who expressed his own concerns about The Passion, says the center has received a flood of angry calls and rancorous e-mail. "Not all of them are hateful," he says. "Some of them invite us to become Christians." Hier won't demonize Gibson. "I don't believe he is an anti-Semite. But I do think he has a responsibility here. Wonders can be done to a film in the editing room. Corrections can be made. That is, if he's interested in healing this issue...
...tide while converting public buildings like schools into temporary shelters. Foreign investors might get spooked by the chaos and yank money from South Korea. Then there are the long-term problems of integrating the high-tech South Korean economy and the more primitive North Korean one. The new flood of cheap North Korean labor and land would potentially depress wages and property prices in the South. Plus, South Korean industry might stamp out the North's own, less efficient businesses?a plight experienced by many East German companies...
...decade after the Cultural Revolution held that science, not politics, was the key to China's future. "Jianli decided to study math at Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks later, Yang voluntarily returned to China to support the demonstrators. "He knew that something major was happening, and he couldn't bear the thought...