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George Monroe (Kevin Kline) is an architect's assistant. He lives in a shack overlooking the ocean. He also has one of those fatal movie diseases that doesn't restrict strenuous physical activity or general good cheer. He decides to renovate his house and his disaffected son (Hayden Christensen) by employing him on the job. Will they reconcile? Will the house get finished before George croaks? Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother...
...have become part of the language, while terms like commonweal, and even citizenship--in which there lingers a residual sense of public good and private obligation--sound archaic." Serious outward pursuits such as citizenship first require a hard look within, and we're not much for what Delbanco calls "strenuous self-reflection" these days. He notes that even Billy Graham wrote a 750-page autobiography in which he says almost nothing about his inner journey to God. "Inwardness," Delbanco writes, "should not be missing from a religious book." Nor should it be missing from a good society, Delbanco is saying...
...likely impossible for us to destroy international terrorism networks alone. We must therefore cultivate support and seek assistance wherever we can, working closely with our allies abroad. Our aims will be most successfully accomplished if nations choose to drive out terrorism from their own land, and our most strenuous diplomacy should be employed in encouraging them to do so. But if we possess clear and irrefutable evidence, in our best judgment and in that of our allies, that a nation is sheltering those who have planned the terrorist attacks and who are now planning others, the use of allied military...
Great schools like Yale should not escape condemnation so quickly. Contrary to McWhorter’s claim, slavery was condemned by many intellectual leaders in early America. In the 1680s, shortly after the settlement of Pennsylvania, Quakers there began strenuous efforts to discourage slavery. In the wake of the Revolution, many people—inspired by Enlightenment ideas that taught the fundamental equality of humans—urged the abolition of slavery. Many Americans knew slavery was wrong, but the leading institutions—churches, school and courts—continued to embrace slavery...
...then, when it was easy, when the talent just poured from her. There was her first lead role, in Gorgeous, and a celebrated part in Mabel Cheung's City of Glass. Though she says she tries hard only "about 50% of the time," even that can surpass her most strenuous co-stars' efforts. Leslie Cheung says he was practically acted off screen by her womanwithal in the clever porn-parody Viva Erotica, her sixth Hong Kong film. Hong Kong heartthrob Nicholas Tse says she "intimidated" him in Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, even though she came with none of what...