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Reagan and Diplomacy Ratnesar is generous in crediting Reagan, as a champion of diplomacy [Nov. 9]. Other one-liners were not quite so diplomatic. In 1984, Reagan said, "We begin bombing in five minutes," over a microphone he thought had been turned off. For some, this supposed joke is an...
Honduras, in fact, is the latest example of how little progress Central America has made since the coups, civil wars and corruption of the past. The institutional rot that spawned those Cold War conflicts remains, not just in Honduras but in nearby countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama. In...
To be sure, Central America has shed some of its banana-republic baggage. Democratic elections have replaced right-wing death squads and Marxist guerrillas. This year, Salvadorans for the first time elected a President, Mauricio Funes, from the party of El Salvador's erstwhile leftist rebels. But life after elections...
Dark? Yes. Disturbing? Absolutely. But Haneke wants his films to challenge his audiences, not merely entertain. "If cinema is exclusively there to produce some aestheticizing lie, that's sad," he says. "If film wants to be a serious art form, it has to take the audience seriously and not simply...
Haneke certainly achieves that in The White Ribbon, which some critics have called his most beautiful movie to date. Set in a German village just before World War I, the film is shot in black and white and depicts how a community falls apart following a series of inexplicable events...