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Like most movies, this one favors the underdog, the insurgent, the solitary hero against the powerful. Gibson's Jesus is a traditional movie rebel. He shows steely contempt for authority, chastens his mates for being slackers and argues with his Father--the God who sent him on this sacred suicide mission. This Jesus is so human he almost forgets he's divine. The grotesque pain he endures in his last 12 hours nearly blinds him to his task of redeeming mankind by dying for it. His memories are not those of a distant godhead but of his youth in Nazareth...
...Philippe was a day late. The Haitian rebel army leader had promised he?d arrive in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, February 29-his 36th birthday-to force President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. But early that morning, Aristide-realizing that not only the international community but his own police forces had abandoned him-resigned and hopped on a plane to Africa where asylum awaited...
...Yahweh") is a capital crime; under Roman law, calling yourself King of the Jews is treason. The writers' touch is especially careful and coherent in the trial scene. The Sanhedrin is no lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace to our gathering tonight.") The rabbis here are burdened with too much religious lore, or have too little imagination, to accept that the ragged fellow is God. In a way, they don't condemn him; he condemns them. Nobody...
...bunch, most of them Ivy League graduates. For these people, adventure means buying a non-rent-controlled apartment or arriving to visit friends in Connecticut at five a.m. They’re known to break with tradition in daring ways. “Pamela is the family rebel,” a family friend said of one bride I read about. “Everybody in the Holmes family has to go to Harvard. Pamela actually applied to Yale. She ended up going to Harvard, but she showed spunk.” The audacity...
...Padgett: That question has to be weighing heavily on the minds of opposition leaders. They have two choices: They could continue to reject the peace accord, assuming that the rebels will take over and achieve the basic objective of the political opposition which is to hasten Aristide's departure. But if they wait for the rebels to take over, then when Aristide goes their own hand will be weak because the rebels will be running the show. So, their other choice is to accept the peace proposal laid out by the U.S. delegation, hoping that this could blunt rebel advance...