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...cannot guess the Dean's intentions, but I think the faculty can be trusted to know what the rules are and to know their responsibilities," said Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld...
...work. Most child slaves come from the poorest countries, such as Benin, Burkina Faso or Mali, where up to 70% of the people live on less than $1 a day. "These people are in areas where there are no options for children, no school, no jobs," says Beth Herzfeld, spokeswoman for Anti-Slavery International, a London-based advocacy group. "They don't have the belief that they can build a life for their families." And so parents sell their children to traders for as little as $15, in the hope that the children will find a better life...
...this guy cool, or what? A hotter approach to filmmaking comes from John Herzfeld, writer-director of 15 Minutes, which takes its title from Andy Warhol's famous formulation about fame in the age of television. Like Minahan, Herzfeld has worked at TV's scuzzier levels (he once made a docudrama about Joey Buttafuoco), and his project was passed around even longer (eight years) before getting a green light. But unlike Minahan, who finds celebrity and greed "not very interesting," he's "fascinated by our culture's most volatile obsessions--celebrity, violence and wealth." His brutal but very well-made...
...enforcement officers pursuing them, Robert De Niro's cop, Eddie Flemming, and Edward Burns' arson investigator, Jody Warsaw, the former is the more interesting. Flemming is a media favorite--a PEOPLE cover boy, always good for a sound bite and, says Herzfeld, based on a real New York City detective. Flemming thinks his celebrity helps him in his work. We may think differently as this bloody story evolves. But he is a novel, disturbing movie character. And his prey, with their fresh, almost innocent, foreigner's insight into how to maneuver the media for their own ends, are too. Best...
...environments, almost by definition, elude critical analysis, lawmaking, moral philosophy. They leave us sputtering, sure that something is wrong but puzzled about what can be done about it. Herzfeld, for example, is worried about his work's obvious bloodiness but says he wanted to show "that real violence has real consequences." Similarly, Minahan wonders, "Did I make a film about exploitation or an exploitation film...