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...wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. The war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. Who foresaw that the battle would require a national seminar about when it's O.K. for Americans to torture prisoners and whether near drowning counts? Or a debate over which clauses of the Constitution might be expendable? We may agree that terrorism is wicked, but we're still unsure about how to answer...
...naive, almost touching, this idea that modern parents have such financial power and moral authority over their children that they can keep the little ones from seeing a forbidden film, especially when kids usually go to the movies on their own, and are adept at buying tickets for a PG-rated picture and then sneaking into an R-rated...
Your headline "Unintended Targets," [Aug. 14] for the article about children who are casualties on both sides of the war between Israel and Hizballah, was offensive. Unlike Israel, Hizballah intentionally targets civilians, including children. Your headline implies a false moral equivalence and obscures the fact that Israel is fighting to protect its civilians. Carl Drucker Hollywood...
...killed by the Russian forces in March, 200 5) gave him orders to do everything possible to save the children." Zakayev said they both "were horrified at this atrocity." Though Maskhadov and Zakayev were not part of the faction that initiated the school operation, they wielded sufficient authority and moral weight to order them to release the hostages in exchange for their safe passage...
...Moral Tales Eric Rohmer The latest box from Criterion is one of its biggest--and grandest. Rohmer's lovely, chatty, pensive comedies (including My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee) arrive with six of the director's short films, his written versions of the Tales in a 262-page book and a pamphlet of essays by top critics. The package serves as both a tribute to Rohmer and a display of Criterion's excellence...