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...Gospel and the Gore David Van Biema's viewpoint "Why It's So Bloody," on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ [March 1], stated that the movie's brutal imagery is more attuned to the religious spirit of the Middle Ages than to today's Christianity. But the point of the movie is to remind Christians?and proclaim to non-Christians?that Jesus, in his humanity, suffered terribly in order to be offered up as the perfect sacrifice. There is no way to portray this other than in graphic detail. Many of today's Christians want to worship...
Greenberg, who advised the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton in1992 and Al Gore ’69 in 2000, as well as many international leaders, said devoted Democrats and Republicans have profoundly different worldviews. “It’s not about issues,” Greenberg said. “This politics is about a way of life...
Director Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ represents the teachings of Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise...
Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who helped write the legal briefs for the recount appeal of former Vice President Al Gore ’69, said that it is critical to address voting irregularities as soon as possible...
...People say, ‘Well, your vote doesn’t count,’” Ventura said. “Well my response to that is tell that to Vice President Al Gore...