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...François Truffaut as a memorializer of youth in all its enthralling achiness. This Criterion Collection package brings together (with the usual fabulous extras) three mini-masterpieces: the 1971 Murmur of the Heart, the 1974 Lacombe Lucien and the 1987 Au Revoir les Enfants (below). Sexuality, fascism and racism are the respective issues addressed, but it's the mood that sticks with you: a wise, indulgent longing that is immediately French, indelibly universal...
...investigated Reeves’ purportedly missing state income tax returns. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also questioned Reeves on why he had received extra salary payments of roughly $30,000 from the school committee over three years.Reeves denies any intentional wrongdoing, suggesting that he was singled out because of racism or homophobia.“No improper spending was ever documented,” he insists. “There’s never been a mayor like me in Massachusetts. I have and will again face peculiar scrutinies that I can’t explain unless I look...
...Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly states, the offensive images did not warrant firebombing and violent protest, but neither has their publication encouraged intelligent...
...tempest might have remained a largely local dispute had Prime Minister Rasmussen not compounded the editors' intransigence by refusing to meet with the ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries to discuss the cartoon flap. "This was a major mistake," says Denmark-based Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism. "I have never in my long political career heard of a group of diplomats asking for a meeting on such an important subject and being refused...
...there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew, and we knew, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here." REVEREND JOSEPH LOWERY, American Methodist minister, criticizing U.S. President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq and America's problems with poverty and racism, in his eulogy at the funeral of Coretta Scott King...