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Ben Artzi-Pelossof's speech at Rabin's memorial service brought her to the world's attention, so that event is naturally the book's starting and ending point. In between, she touches on a number of topics-- Rabin's personal manner, her experience of growing up in Israel in...
The President's Report is an opportunity for candor and self-reflection, not sentimental cheer-leading. The omission--suppression?--of such important historical occurrences, combined with the inclusion of more favorable ones, is at best inaccurate and at worst deceptive.
Americans have sometimes sought a kind of moral cleansing in children's adventures (Tom Sawyer's, to start with). It is part of an American theology of redemption by kids--a sentimental reassertion of the nation's conception of its own innocence. It is especially important to stage such pageants...
The race is between two contenders, Mira Sorvino and Joan Allen. Each claims her share of devotees, but this is the category where newcomers often seem to be rewarded--Marisa Tomei and Anna Paquin, for example. Last year, Dianne Wiest won for her supporting role in another Woody Allen film...
Retribution for a crime against these families and society as a whole, is the most powerful argument for the death penalty. Murderers deserve to pay for their crime. As the Rev. William Barnwell, an advocate of the abolition of the death penalty, wrote last month in the New Orleans Times...