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...wealth (and the ignorance of how to use and enjoy it), but also the speed at which money is gained and lost. Condemning the money hungry stockbrokers for losing their values, morality,and their very selves to wealth, this movie shows the emptiness and danger when money becomes an object of worship...

Author: By Jill Kou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Under the [White] Collar | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...Diesel: I think one object of the film that makes it different than other sci-fi films is that we wanted the story to stand independent of the sci-fi elements, like the creatures. That's what made the movie so attractive to me: it exposes people's humanity. It's exploration in order to expose...

Author: By Patty Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Interview: Whispers in the Dark | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...There is no object so foul," Emerson says, "that intense light will not make it beautiful." This aphorism, reflecting the 19th century's core faith in progress and reason, could be the guiding premise behind Roger Martin du Gard's expansive novel, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. A memoir of the eponymous character, the novel is a testament to reflection and self-examination. Maumort, born in 1870 to an old landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maumort Mounts the Moral Barricade | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

According to her notion, a person contemplating a beautiful object is "decentered" by their awareness of beauty outside of themselves. This helps them act ethically toward others...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Some Scarry Topics: From Beauty to TWA 800 | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...thought, 'Ed's shot, Ed's shot, I've got to get to him.'" Boss ran toward McMellon, and Carroll backpedaled frantically away from the vestibule. Boss recalls looking up into the vestibule, and seeing Diallo crouched, already shot at this point, his arm extended, pointing a black object toward Boss. "I thought, Oh my God. I'm going to die," Boss said, "So I started firing, and pushed myself sideways, out of the line of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Diallo Trial, Justice Is Weighed in Different Measures | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

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