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...nasty interagency quarrel in Burma...
...they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another extended family at the O.K. Corral. The exact nature of the quarrel between the Earps and Ike Clanton's crowd is never satisfactorily explained. Like almost everything else in this fragmented and ambiguous movie, it just sort of happens...
...circumstances of this affair -- evidently no Singaporean has ever been punished under the Vandalism Act for defacing private property -- suggest that Singapore has used Fay as an unwilling point man in a growing quarrel between East and West about human rights. Several large Asian countries, China among them, argue that the U.S. has no business criticizing their own, equally legitimate values. But Japan stresses majority rights too. So does Hong Kong. Neither is watering its economic miracle with the blood from a bamboo cane...
Brown's work is emblazoned with a church imprimatur. And it will receive no quarrel from many Jewish religious scholars. From the beginning, says Judaic , studies professor Shaye J.D. Cohen of Brown University, the Jewish tradition "had no trouble accepting the simple story that Jews executed Jesus as a sinner and a criminal, even to the extent of ignoring the role of the Romans." In modern times, Jews have adopted more favorable opinions about Jesus, just as Christians have worked to eradicate lingering anti-Semitism. But Cohen considers revisionism about the trial "pointless" because Jews cannot reasonably expect Christians...
...begins with two policemen falling into a comic argument over whether to let their prisoner, an army deserter, escape. The quarrel leads to one of them killing the other and then committing suicide. It climaxes with a priest -- a worldly and genial man -- hanging himself in his church. He has fallen into despair after too profound an exposure to the antireligious writings of the poet-philosopher Miguel de Unamuno...