Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color-by-number style where...
...heart has been yanked from my chest and danced upon--and a Harvard man is responsible. No, he's not a big senior. You probably don't even know him, but by now I'll bet you've heard of him. The man in question? None other than Charles E. Schumer...
...seems to suggest that there are certain matters with greater significance than free expression, though it is unclear what these matters might be. Despite these ambiguities, so far it seems that Harvard's speech policies haven't been particularly problematic. The more salient question at Harvard may be how students, not administrators, respond to unpopular speech. Kors and Silverglate describe instances at other schools in which student publications have been stolen from campus distribution centers by students who disagreed with the views expressed in them...
...sent to concentration camps set up in the city, similar to the way the Japanese were treated in World War II. Relations flare up between our trio of characters, who are all trying to resolve the crisis through their own means. The film is meant to make us question how we would react if, or even when, this situation arises and does so with moderate success...
...Harvard is doing its best to avoidthose pitfalls, and the only question that remainsis, how far can the Crimson...