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...people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes...
...going to last, and indeed it didn't. On Sunday, five armed naval units from Iran's Revolutionary Guards aggressively challenged three U.S. Navy ships passing into the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. There were no shots fired or damage caused, but no doubt this was an Iranian reminder to the United States that the Gulf is called the Persian Gulf for a reason. And the Iranians chose Hormuz, the only real egress for Gulf oil, to remind us that they have their hand on the world's oil spigot...
...years have passed - 70 of them - other horrors have piled up and the Japanese, who have never fully come to grips with their war crimes, have taken to referring to Nanking as an "incident." It remained for the Chinese-American writer Iris Chang to remind us, a decade ago, in a book full of passages too ugly to read, of just how monstrous this crime against humanity was. She also reminded us that a handful of Americans and Europeans - doctors, teachers, missionary ministers - did their best to save what lives they could. It is this story that writer-directors Bill...
...from oblivion, also committed suicide - perhaps because her book contains images that could never be erased from her consciousness. There are some stories that, if we become too intimate with them, have the power to destroy us. Seeing Nanking will not do that to a moviegoer. But it will remind the few who brave it that we are not always allowed the luxury of objective witness, that sometimes we are plunged into nightmares from which there is no surcease...
...analysis, and a little less cheap theory, our American friends will concede that we have a certain talent for keeping the holy flame burning, despite the modest size of our territory and population. But TIME's unexpected gift - our 15 minutes of fame! - offers us the chance to remind our compatriots that nothing can be taken for granted, that it is necessary to fight, even at home, to reaffirm the importance of this culture, the power of our influence...