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...poor example to the world. What will now stop regional powers - or even individuals - from intervening in neighboring countries? A proper, legal vision of intervention must be reconstructed and action taken only when a U.N. resolution has deemed it legitimate. Paul van der Schueren Paris Of Medals and Myths The performance of Canada's Olympic team could have been better, but the only thing that went wrong in Athens is that we Canadians bought into the Olympic myth that winning gold medals is somehow necessary for a country's self-esteem [Sept. 6]. Why do we need to ensure that...
...real people that his actors, retracing Guevara's and Granado's steps, met and spoke with: dispossessed farmers, poor miners, homeless families and lepers. The stark black-and-white portraits show a population strong with pride. For just a moment, they become the icons. By peering behind the myth, Salles has made a man out of Che Guevara. The only glimpse of where the man is headed comes when Granado thinks aloud about the options for peaceful revolution. "A revolution without guns?" Guevara says. "It'll never work." That he would go on to help lead the Cuban revolution...
Searcy points to a large screen at his right that shows other comic-book heroes with multiple identities. In his sermon, he alludes only vaguely to the Catwoman myth and gives the impression that he (like most other Americans) hasn't seen the Halle Berry version. But Searcy knows that a person tormented by questions of image and identity can find encouragement in the message of Genesis 1: 27: "So God created people in his own image." That biblical quotation is projected on the screen, which also features an icon of a smiling cartoon Catwoman sporting purple tights, a feather...
Maybe we're just busy living our lives. A new book by the Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, argues that a closely divided nation isn't necessarily a deeply divided nation. Fiorina cites polling data that show minuscule differences between red-and blue-state voters on most issues (for example: 64% of blues and 62% of reds believe corporations have too much power). Even on ballistic issues like abortion, the "never" and "always" believers tend to be a distinct minority; the vast American middle says, reluctantly, "sometimes." And while gay marriage...
...super" and the "hero." Instead we get Andy, AKA The Death Ray, a drip of a guy with a completely self-serving sense of morality who beats people up and zaps anything or anybody into non-existence. Through him, Clowes creates a darkly hilarious upending of the superhero myth of great powers inspiring great responsibility. In Clowes' world, such power would simply become an extension of the hopelessly flawed, dull and petty people we often...