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This is not about pity. It's more about passion. Pity sees suffering and wants to ease the pain; passion sees injustice and wants to settle the score. Pity implores the powerful to pay attention; passion warns them about what will happen if they don't. The risk of pity is that it kills with kindness; the promise of passion is that it builds on the hope that the poor are fully capable of helping themselves if given the chance. In 2005 the world's poor needed no more condolences; they needed people to get interested, get mad and then...
...beating under the kimono. I loved seeing most of my favorite Chinese actresses in one movie (even if they were turning Japanese), and watching Gong Li stride away with her first big English-language picture. As the vindictive Hatsumomo, the Gongster flashes a stiletto stare that can burn in passion or turn on a rival with Freon fury. Those are pleasures enough for this unapologetic reviewer...
...earthquake relief effort. While there is no word as to whether the President’s office will match the funds or make a donation to make the ERC reach its $50,000 goal, the administration should be commended. The powers-that-be recognized that students were passionate about this cause, and they responded.Both sides—the students who mobilized the efforts in order to create a buzz, as well as the receptive University administration—have done their parts to work together. We hope to continue to see such awareness, passion, and cooperation as motivated individuals...
Although Skoll has the final say on which movies get the green light, he has assembled a team of veteran Hollywood executives who share his vision to oversee the day-to-day operation of Participant's documentary and narrative-feature divisions. "I was definitely inspired by his passion and belief that this could be successful," says Participant president Ricky Strauss. "The idea of working on movies that mattered, with social relevance, was exciting and intoxicating...
...spars to comic effect) can be interpreted as a desperate attempt to find acceptance and emotional warmth. The play even manages to give Bianca (Julia C.W. Chan ’05), more dimension than that of an innocent whore; here, she is painted a desperate idealist, capable of more passion than her one-dimensional exterior amiability in the original work would have initially indicated...