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...friend's suicide, which flows into an exercise in which each participant brings something to the table - a personal issue, a faith question - and the group offers talk and prayer. Its members read from the New Testament's Epistle to the Hebrews, observe a mindful silence and share a hymn. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...teams Israeli assassins assigned to wreck vengeance upon the terrorists who wiped out eleven of that country's athletes at the 1972 Olympic games in Munich. As such it functions as a well-made and suspenseful thriller. But that's not its main business. Neither is a hymn of hate to the Palestinian perpetrators of that heinous crime, which was the true beginning of modern terrorism, carried out in the full glare of the media spotlight. Spielberg believes the actions of the Israelis was fully justified. But mainly he stresses the human cost of counter-terrorism, the fact that...
...sentimental without being squishy, inspiring without being a tear-jerker and featuring honest, honorable performances by Crowe as well as by Renee Zellweger as Braddock's fierce, brave wife and Paul Giamatti as the wise-guy manager who stands by his unpromising man. In its way it is a hymn to the courage and good values of working class America, and that may not have appealed to modern, fat-and-happy Americans, but, forget that-- Cinderella Man is a movie well worth taking to heart. (Review: A Man, A Punch, A Simpler Time...
...case you didn't notice, The Producers, in its several incarnations, basically benignly blesses the low-business heart of anything-goes show business. The film-from-a-musical-from-a-film is a hard-driving hymn to crooked producers, manic sight gags and a complete indifference to questions of good taste and large meaning...
...their mission,” he said. “They’re doing the best they can to spread democracy around the world.” The evening’s activities concluded with a round of toasts and a recitation of the Marines’ Hymn. The Armed Forces Alumni Association of HBS sponsored the event...