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...Power unmasks what was underneath all along,” Caro says. “Johnson had compassion for the downtrodden and the passion to raise them up.” His achievement of that goal represented an apex in his career...
...energy and passion, there's a sense of futility about Tranet's efforts. "Without a staff," he says, "I can only stop one person at a time. To do our job seriously, we need a big staff that checks every exit port every day." In the meantime, the industrial-scale looting continues unabated. In 1999 entire slabs of bas-relief from Banteay Chhmar, a magnificent temple in western Cambodia, were loaded onto trucks and driven to Thailand. Roads were bulldozed through the jungle to carry out the sandstone chunks, leading Thai police who later intercepted the load to charge...
...with advancing the work of his predecessor, Wayne Cherry, who rescued GM from the bland boxes it produced in the '80s and early '90s. Welburn recently headed design of GM trucks and SUVs, overseeing the look of the hot Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2, among other vehicles. Welburn's passion is muscle cars: he created an Oldsmobile that sustained 257 m.p.h.--a world record...
...forthcoming movie The Passion by Mel Gibson has already elicited much comment (Arts, “Scholars Challenge Gibson’s ‘Passion,’” Oct. 17). The criticisms generally focus on two points: the movie does not accept the theological reforms introduced by Vatican II and the movie claims to be an accurate historical reconstruction but in fact is not. But the critics, no less than Gibson, need to exercise care...
...blood be upon us and upon our children,” and when they do so, does the movie make clear that these are people who lived long ago and who are not speaking for anyone other than themselves? Or does the movie imply, as all medieval passion plays unmistakably implied, that Jews of all generations somehow bear the guilt of murdering Christ and that Jewish “Christ-killers” are with us still? This is the question that needs to be asked in deciding whether the movie and Gibson are anti-Jewish...