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...Colonial guilt might seem like a poor reason for the E.U. to prefer Caribbean bananas to the by-all-accounts superior Latin America bananas grown under Chiquita's and Dole's aegis. But Europe's policy was aimed at a "trade not aid" goal of keeping small family farms afloat. The U.S. stance, meanwhile, seems to have been designed almost solely by hundreds of thousands of soft-money contributions to the Democrats made by Chiquita owner Carl Lindner...
...understand the strands of guilt that eventually bound him into a web from which he could not escape, it is necessary to recount his crimes. He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism. Elected President of Serbia in 1990, he set out to unify the odd and unstable jumble of nationalities that crowd the Balkan peninsula--not by propagating a compelling vision for the future but by broadcasting a kind of radiant hate that warmed some Serbian hearts...
...fame of the book, a tale of guilt and retribution told through a prism of frank sexuality, is such that many directors wanted to film it, but Nonzee was the producer's first choice after the success of Nang Nak. Jan Dara, the curious but ultimately doomed main character (played by Thai TV actor Eakarat Sarsukh), is abandoned from the start of his life: his mother dies during childbirth and his father brands him a bastard. (The boy's first memory of his father is watching him have sex with a nanny.) At 13, he is thrown...
...second wave of cases, of German judges whose complicity was less clear-cut. The courtroom scenes are intense and satisfying, largely because the "other" side (especially Michael Hayden, as the young German defense attorney) is so well represented. And even though the chief accused (Maximilian Schell) confesses his guilt a little too neatly, and the homespun judge (George Grizzard) arrives at the "right" verdict on cue, Mann makes sure the moral journey is not easy. As it never should...
...start planning any guilt-free buffet binges just yet: At this point, of course, any pill for humans is but a twinkle in the eye of every pharmaceutical company's CEO. More extensive tests are on the horizon, and eventually human subjects will be introduced...