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...news has rippled out from Chicago across the country to readers of the 100 other papers in which Greene's column ran. To understand the apoplexy it created is to understand what Greene had come to represent. He wrote for people hungry for moral clarity, for nostalgia, for a softer world. And in that respect, he did his job. It's just that he did not personally reside in that world...
...changed the look of the cop show, first with Miami Vice, then (and more to his credit) with the hard-bitten serial drama Crime Story. RHD is police drama at its most minimal: a brusque L.A. detective (Tom Sizemore) investigates brutal acts by bad people--no back story, no moral, no attempts at uplift. What set it apart are the haunting music and the disorienting, bravura visuals--sometimes several minutes without dialogue--that turn L.A. from a neutral backdrop into a jumpy, polyglot place of seedy beauty. It's an art film disguised as a gripping meat-and-potatoes action...
Michael Duffy's "Marching Alone" [11 LIVES, THE PRESIDENT, Sept. 9] showed his apparent disdain for President Bush's "simple moral clarity." If the American media insist on trivializing the enormity of Sept. 11 by rinsing its reality away in a river of moral relativism, they will have themselves to blame if terrorists launch an attack even more deadly. MICHAEL O'DRISCOLL Blackrock, Ireland...
When people, especially those in power, talk too much about divine guidance and moral certainty, they risk being accused of hypocrisy. The President's "regular guy" persona contrasts sharply with his past business dealings and his positions on labor, health care, privacy and tax cuts, to mention a few. So Bush likes to have clear choices and wants to make clean decisions. Don't we all? If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, the world doesn't present choices like a dinner menu, and many decisions have unintended consequences. SUSAN CALHOUN Tucson, Ariz...
Harvard University occupies the preeminent place among institutions of learning in America, and it is a colossal pity that its faculties are so often guilty of so much intellectual and moral laziness. Bully, then, for Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a man with whom I often find it difficult to agree—on anything (Opinion, “A Challenge to House Master Hanson,” Sept. 23). His courage in challenging Winthrop House Master Paul Hanson—for having signed an anti-Israeli divestment petition—deserves all the praise I can muster...