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...Herzegovina's Muslim-Croat Federation. A new multiethnic police force would take over security, and Muslims would start going back home. When Grbavica was handed over on March 19, the reunification of Sarajevo was complete, and the occasion should have marked a tremendous achievement for the Dayton negotiations. The noblest dream of the agreements was to restore Sarajevo to its prewar condition as a proud cosmopolitan city where Muslims, Serbs and Croats all lived together. But since the peace was signed, the Serbs have been fleeing Grbavica and other suburbs, looting and burning the buildings they have left behind...
That Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier both donned blackface in famous film versions doesn't mean no one else should try. Parker had the radical idea to cast a black man as Othello, and Laurence Fishburne brings an outsider's dignity to the role of Shakespeare's noblest chump. Irene Jacob is a lovely, sallow Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh--looking bloated and rheumy, slithering snakelike on rooftops, whispering his venomous gossip as if it's his last confession--makes a fine Iago, a demi-devil working his cool wit to destroy those he might have loved...
...noblest in Sabbath, and perhaps in Roth, is the coming-full-circle, the rejoining of ends. Recalling his Jersey Shore childhood, Sabbath is a modern day Thornton Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...
...real anguish remaining at the heart of this vexed relationship will never be easily washed away, of course. The fact that America lost a cause draped in the noblest rhetoric but fought on cynical and divisive terms produced a sense of lingering self-doubt that may never vanish. In a significant way, though, the principles for which the war was waged are ascendant today in Vietnam. The free-market spirit of Saigon is what counts, not the Marxist maunderings of some old men in Hanoi. The Vietnamese, who lost many more lives than Americans did along the streets, rivers...
...intended as a national forum on the skewed relationship between federal and state power. Most Governors considered a re-evaluation long overdue. Although the New Deal's assumption by the Federal Government of the U.S.'s primary responsibilities and powers may have been one of the century's noblest undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s or early '70s the pendulum had swung too far. There was, it seemed, no part of life too small for the Feds to micromanage. Or to mismanage, since most programs were fought over by multiple sparring congressional committees. Creative Governors like Engler, Wisconsin...