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...Boddhisatva of the future, who, like Christ, will come at the end of the world. As the centuries passed, this Manichaean-tinged Maitreya would inspire millenarian revolts in China, one of which helped bring down the empire of Kublai Khan in the 14th century. The leader of the successful rebel coalition rewarded his allies of the "Bright" religion by naming the new regime after their faith--Ming-chiao in Chinese. And, thus, the opulent and imperious Ming dynasty, which later inspired Enlightenment philosophers in Europe with secularizing ideas, had a bit of Jesus buried deep in its heart...
OLIVER STONE was told that his film Nixon had won no Oscars by the Zapatistas in Reality, Mexico. Stone had been invited there by Subcomandante MARCOS, the Indian rebel group's white middle-class leader, who complimented Stone on his war films and Natural Born Killers, which Marcos had seen even though he has been in the jungle since 1994. "I thought Oscar week was a good time to do something else," says Stone, who found the rebel leader to be a "poet, philosopher and a very romantic figure." No movies are planned about him, however. In fact, Stone...
...group that likes to think of itself as ad resistant. But for these cynics with disposable income, advertisers have been devising below-the-radar approaches for years, come-ons that are harder to detect and resist than dancing tacos or Liz galumphing through The Nanny. These are all the rebel ads and anti-ad ads of recent vintage, from former "underground" beat poet/heroin addict William Burroughs flacking for Nike to Sprite's "Image Is Nothing" campaign that attacks advertising as a bunch of lies; from the spot that insists buying an Audi is "a declaration which screams out 'I will...
DROPPING LEAFLETS ON THE CAPITAL OF another nation while violating its airspace and inciting people to rebel against a government on repeated occasions are harsh provocations. Any self-respecting country would be expected to respond to this kind of repeated attack. Castro's reaction was fair. He tolerated the insult more than a dozen times. The Cuban-American activists got the treatment they asked for. ENRIQUE FARIAS Mexico City...
Calling attention to the scurrilous elements of the Southern tradition is not merely regional prejudice or a needless rehashing of evils better forgotten. Those who acknowledge that the rebel flag is a detestable symbol but take umbrage when its legacy is discussed seem to prefer to wallow in escapism and denial. And those who still revere this flag have even less grounds to complain when I graphically recount the barbarism associated with it. If the South, and Georgia in particular, wishes to cling to the Confederate flag, then its heritage of shame cannot be glossed over...