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...feel you've fulfilled your vision in the films you've directed? -Ignacio Meza, Los Angeles In Looking for Richard I had a clear vision. Salomaybe?, this movie I'm making now [about staging Oscar Wilde's play Salome], is the first time I ever had a passion without a vision and hoped that my passion would lead me to a vision. I think that's because I don't consider myself a full-time director. Acting is my deal. I look at the world as an actor looks at the world 'cause that's been my whole life...
...FITTINGLY WONKY remark by one of the world's leading philosophers, Richard Rorty described his 50-year career as a search to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for." A lover of politics and literature, Rorty rejected such traditional analytic questions as, What is the meaning of life? Instead he caused a stir--and irked critics, who called him a "moral relativist"--with books like Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which advocated pragmatism, the view that real-life interactions and consequences define truth and meaning. He was 75 and had pancreatic cancer...
...There are also times when unilateral action is an absolute advantage. "One of the best decisions Bush made was to resist the calls to put all of the $2.5 billion in AIDS support into the international fund," says Richard Holbrooke. "It was important that the recipients know the medicine was coming directly from the United States. It has helped our reputation throughout Africa." The next President will have to understand that there are tremendous advantages to be gained from benign unilateralism...
...Some Senators were convinced to at least keep an open mind. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Jim Bunning of Kentucky - both of whom voted to shelve the bill last week - emerged from the room "open to listen to anything proposed." Senator John Thune, a South Dakota Republican who also opposed the measure last week, said he might be convinced to support the measure if his amendment - which would prioritize the securing of U.S. borders before giving any benefits to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. - is included on the list of those to be considered. Bush "was very persuasive...
While the professional bashers of religion, such as C. Richard Dawkins, Chrisopher E. Hitchens, and Sam Harris may look with surprise and even alarm at the persistence of religious belief at such a place as Harvard, it is probably fair to say that the will to believe will outlast their critique and that religion at Harvard, both debated and affirmed, will always be at the center of our institutional identity. We may not be a godly place but we are anything but godless, and that is what makes the place so interesting. It is no accident that our most significant...