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Although it is limited to historical topics, Tempus is open to any genre and subject. Topics for pieces in the first journal ranged from Harvard's construction and operation of the seventeenth-century Indian College to the Boston Chinatown raid...
...those who must deal with the slings and arrows of more common misfortunes--unfaithfulness, betrayal, ungratefulness and mere insult. In the past two years, scientists and sociologists have begun to extract forgiveness and the act of forgiving from the confines of the confessional, transforming it into the subject of quantifiable research. In one case, they have even systemized it as a 20-part "intervention" that they claim can be used to treat a number of anger-related ills in a totally secular context. In short, to forgive is no longer just divine...
Bell, a paid research subject, signed up for Enright's project with no expectation of a breakthrough. But citing a similar study with incest survivors, Enright says, "People who came to us with moderate psychological depression--and that is a lot of pain--all ended up being not clinically depressed and retained that over 14 months." He and his students have also applied his forgiveness "intervention" to elderly parents angry at distant children and men hurt by the abortion decision of a partner. His latest project is with sex offenders in a Madison mental-health facility. Enright feels that...
...modern world history actually requires an entire 60 min. on Elvis. It is iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation of Israel...
...first-time director, Chen says, "at times I felt like the captain of the Titanic." Chen may also have felt like Xiu Xiu: both abandoned by the government hierarchy and subject to its whim. "Every day we worried that our equipment would be confiscated and that the film negative would never get out of China. But fortunately nobody came to look for us." Unlike Xiu Xiu, of course, Chen chose these conditions on her own terms: she sent herself down. "Hardship is the romantic part of filmmaking," she says. "You endure for a few months, then you go home...