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...Within Our Gates" is even better (stranger). Another garbled answer to "Birth," "Gates" bastes a murder plot together with both white and black villains. A white woman rails against the education of black girls ("Thinking will give them a headache") and worries that it will give them the notion to vote. One Negro layabout, who has lyingly implicated a fellow black in a murder case so as to ingratiate himself with his white boss, preens in a dialogue intertitle: "Here I is 'mong da whi' fo'ks, while dem other niggahs hide in the woods." He is surrounded by white...
...they want their favorite filmmakers to keep making favored films. And Allen has had skeins of terrific movies: Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days in the mid-'80s and the lesser, still pleasing run of Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite in the mid-'90s. So, as we near the mid-'00s, can we hope for another blossoming? It would be nice if the Woodman had one more return to top form--an invigorating dose of comic Viagra. --By Richard Corliss
...police officer are currently on trial in Jakarta for a 1999 mass killing in East Timor. It is Indonesia's first human-rights court, but many doubt it will throw any light on the role senior officers played in orchestrating the violence. Another case in point: the murder of Papuan independence leader Theys Eluay, found strangled to death in Papua's capital of Jayapura last November. A special inquiry pinned the murder on members of the notorious Elite army unit Kopassus, who, according to one senior military officer, "killed Theys without any order from their superiors"?those few bad apples...
Something blacker than mere mourning descended over the Netherlands last week. The murder of populist politician Pim Fortuyn drove thousands of dazed citizens into the streets in shock, anger and a cataclysmic sense of loss that went beyond one life to encompass the nation itself. A man who just weeks earlier was hotly disputing comparisons with French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed in death to have bizarrely taken on the luster of his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy. His new window on a harder-edged Dutch future, disturbing to some and promising to others, slammed shut before it ever...
INDONESIA Hit Men A judge handed down life sentences to two men allegedly hired by former President Suharto's son Tommy to assassinate a Supreme Court judge, Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, in July 2001. Tommy Suharto is separately accused of masterminding the murder and could receive the death penalty if convicted...