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...Jesus film with violence is bound to roil some people. But the film's carnage is emetic, not exploitative. The crowning with thorns, the scourging at the pillar, the agonized trudge up Calvary show what Jesus suffered and why; and James Caviezel's spiky, ferocious, nearly heroic performance is a perfect servant to the role. This is not a movie for all believers - or for all moviegoers. But it is, nonetheless, a believer's movie. Gibson believes in the power of Jesus' message. He believes in the power of cinema to rethink traditions, to make Jesus live in a skeptical...
...hero he is. But a man of so many pirouettes hardly inspires confidence as a resolute President. That should not surprise us. The very idea that national service, even heroic service, necessarily correlates with great presidential leadership is simply irrational. By that logic, Douglas MacArthur would have made a great President. By that logic, Ulysses S. Grant was a great President. (It's not just an American phenomenon: the most decorated veteran in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, was a disastrous Prime Minister.) Even more impressive is the fact that two of the greatest war Presidents in American history--Abraham...
Both the Big Red and the Lions saw their last action on Valentine’s Day. Cornell shared Harvard’s fate, losing 72-62 to the Quakers, while Columbia celebrated the holiday in style, pulling out a heroic 60-56 victory against Princeton...
Each campaign puts biography to different use: Clark's and Kerry's heroic tales show all they ways they are better than us. Edwards' bootstrap story shows how he is just like us. Only Dean dared to design a whole strategy around the idea that the personal was not political. Rejecting the rituals of revelation, he adamantly refused to talk about himself, his family, his faith journey, his heartwarming moments as a doctor. Some of this was camouflage: the tribune of the common man who grew up on Park Avenue and went to prep school. During one debate, Dean talked...
...short answer is a resounding: of course! If not us, who? If not now, when? The constant pushing of the frontier is a central idea to Americans; we are a pioneering people. I daresay, with such a large budget deficit it only makes Bush's proposal all the more heroic, especially in the world's eye. Perhaps this is the craftiest political stunt we have seen in a long time, but nevertheless, it will also mark what may be a second Age of Exploration and lay the foundation for the greatest era of scientific discovery the world has ever seen...