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...consternation of many journalists, however, the meaning of those quotation marks has been blurred by a three-judge panel of the U.S. appeals court in California. In a 2-to-1 vote, the judges this month dismissed a libel suit by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, holding that a writer may misquote a subject -- even deliberately -- as long as the sense is not substantially changed. Malcolm's articles attributed to Masson some dozen phrases he contends were altered or fabricated. Most offensive to him was a supposed self-characterization as an "intellectual gigolo...
...Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, is assassinated as he steps off the elevator near his office in the university administration building. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility...
...spotlight with his debut film She's Gotta Have It, questions what the Civil Rights Movement is for Blacks in America today, where few have found an acceptable middle-ground between the dichotomy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent position and the much more aggressive stance of Malcolm...
...climax of the film is not enough, the final ideas left for the viewer to ponder are a pair of quotes from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King explains why violence is always destructive for everyone, and Malcolm X describes why violence may be necessary sometimes...
...right. He leaves much up to the viewer to decide. Do the Right Thing is a difficult film because it forces all members of the audience to think--hard--about their personal positions about race relations and come up with their own conclusions. And, like the final quote from Malcolm X, the movie has a very disturbing, depressing...