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...terms of their effects on the national consciousness, the distinctions between the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and, say, the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, are too grossly obvious to recount. No other event in our history has been equal to the attacks, in terms of the range and complexity of questions presented, the sheer breadth of people affected and responses provoked. In other words, Sept. 11, from a publisher or bookseller’s view, carries enough weight to completely collapse any established marketing approach that may try to encompass...
...Raging Bull does not achieve its greatness through either of these, but instead more for its enthralling and ultimately tragic story and the artistic greatness of director Martin Scorsese. Based on the true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real and yet eerily surreal depictions of boxing) and metaphor, as LaMotta’s almost masochistic willingness to take abuse in the ring in many ways reflects his self...
...Sontag, art matters, sometimes more than life itself. Two fascinating pieces recount her rather daring directorial debut in Sarajevo in 1993, a time when rifle rounds were still zinging lethally across Sniper’s Alley. The play, Waiting for Godot, could have been exploited facilely—both in performance and in these essays—for its uncomfortable relevance in a place of such imminent mortality. But it is typical of Sontag that she embraces nuances whenever possible and measures out her observations carefully, with the political message demurely concealed beneath the aesthetic...
...civil war that spans over a decade and has outlived any number of broken peace accords and cease-fire treaties, it is often hard to recount what led up to the violence that Edgar and his family witnessed first-hand. The two major players in the nations’s civil war are the freely elected government, which is backed by the UN and a host of neighboring West African countries, and a band of militia rebels who, among other things, want to control Sierra Leone’s profitable diamond mines. The rebels call themselves the Revolutionary United Front...
...Gore side has made its mistakes. Gore's people should have insisted on a full recount, not cherry-picked counties and a no-dimpled-chad standard. They should have conceded that there is not a remedy for every flaw - the butterfly ballots creating Jews for Buchanan, Republicans being allowed to fix Republican absentee-ballot applications...