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Here's an American success story: an Austrian Jew arrives in the U.S. in 1934 knowing barely a word of English, and within a year he is writing screenplays in Hollywood. No wonder Billy Wilder's scintillatingly cynical heroes figured they could get away with murder, cross-dressing or "the girl"; they were reflections of their brilliantly duplicitous writer-director. And though his voice was caustically distinct, Wilder triumphed in a wide variety of genres. He made the sauciest farce (Some Like It Hot), the darkest film noir (Double Indemnity), the dearest romantic comedy (Sabrina) in Hollywood history--as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People Who Left Us In 2002 | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...raced into battle in Afghanistan; in the West Bank and Kashmir, women grieved for their dead with gestures and cries as old as the ages. Innocents suffered, as always: bystanders killed by bombs in Israel; a journalist murdered for no reasons other than that he was an American, a Jew and a reporter. In the suburbs of Washington, a pair of snipers stalked their victims, hiding behind trees, tucked among the vehicles in a parking lot, rendering violence banal--but no less cruel than it was anywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year of Conflict | 12/18/2002 | See Source »

...happens so often that we’ve come to expect it, but I don’t think that we would ever register a formal complaint,” said Sam F. Halabi, who said he often finds phrases like “Jew haters,” “Anti-Semites” and “Self-Hating Pigs” on his group’s posters...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Israel Posters Vandalized in Science Center | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...happens so often that we’ve come to expect it, but I don’t think that we would ever register a formal complaint,” said Sam F. Halabi, who said he often finds phrases like “Jew haters,” “Anti-Semites” and “Self-Hating Pigs” on his group’s posters...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, | Title: Israel Posters Vandalized in Science Centers | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...happens so often that we’ve come to expect it, but I don’t think that we would ever register a formal complaint,” said Sam F. Halabi, who said he often finds phrases like “Jew haters,” “Anti-Semites” and “Self-Hating Pigs” on his group’s posters...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, | Title: Israel Posters Vandalized in the Science Center | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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