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...melodrama is relatively restrained, considering the director is thrill seeker Joel Schumacher (Phone Booth) and the producer is Hollywood's explosives expert Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor). But as with so many films rooted in recent history, Veronica Guerin is already being accused of reshaping the truth for the sake of entertainment. "We expected it," Schumacher told TIME. "I've made movies before that have caused controversy and I think that's a good thing. There are a lot of movies out there that are just medication." Typically, filmmakers will hide a few facts behind artistic license, especially to make sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For The Facts Behind The Fable | 7/20/2003 | See Source »

...wanted Conor to look sharp at this wedding--not for his sake, of course, but for mine. I knew my sister-in-law would be on top of things, that her two boys would turn up lint free, with pants creased. I couldn't let her show me up. Conor had to look good so that I would look good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Avoided Temptation | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...truth is that Kelan didn’t have a clue either. He didn’t know that he was involved in an unnecessary war. I have great respect for men and women who are willing to give their lives for the sake of their fellow citizens—so much that I don’t want them to die. What I cannot respect is the cowardly politicians who lied to and deceived Congress, Parliament and the public. The governments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush committed the ultimate atrocity by sending brave...

Author: By Nicholas F.B. Smyth, | Title: Ashamed To Be an American | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...Bush. I knew Egypt was at peace with Israel, but I was surprised by the amount of sincerity and energy the Egyptian government devoted to the peace process. The politician genuinely felt it was vital that there be a general peace between Israel and the Arab world, for the sake of both Arabs and Israelis, which was pleasantly surprising to hear straight from an Arab politician’s mouth, in an Arab country...

Author: By Erol N. Gulay, | Title: Beyond the Mirage | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane?" Unsurprisingly, she concludes the former is worse, and singles out the Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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