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...portrayed in “United 93.” Meanwhile, the wives in “World Trade Center” are forced into public grieving, the country’s immediate reaction to the attacks.Yet somehow rage, an inevitable byproduct of constrained sorrow, yields prophecy and deeper insight. In “The Great New Wonderful,” Satish’s anger boils over and he kicks his disarming colleague and neighbor Avi (Naseeruddin Shah) to the ground—a stunningly brutal act. Then, as Avi stands, he delivers a simple but crucial lesson contained...
...exclamation was oddly emblematic of Barenboim’s visit. Though there were moments of profound musical insight, Barenboim’s time at Harvard was not the overwhelming success some hoped...
...that forces Americans to look at how the spirit of the country has changed after the terrorist attacks. His uneven but captivating rumination on the intersection of divorce, terrorism, and national unity perfectly describes some of the darkest machinations of the American soul with an odd muddling of insight bordering on the Shakespearean and sardonic litotes befitting Jon Stewart...
...roadside assistance? Greed captured U.S. car companies 30 years ago, and Ford is being destroyed by it. Joseph P. Nolan Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. Counselor With A Conscience How refreshing it was to read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction in Western democracies to the antiterrorism-globalization steamroller. Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away...
...faith and her life fuse into an unself-conscious unity that affirms a tradition of moral life and yet also makes it her own. In that nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love is more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle...