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...Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic but a genre, one that, at its most reductive, exploits the awful events of that chapter in history to badger viewers, intimidate critics, elicit easy tears and serve as a back-patting machine for serioso directors. The excesses of the genre have spawned...
...enormity of the event, and its dreadful intimacy - not the long-range crime of missiles fired across borders or dropped from planes, but people leading other people to gas chambers - make it a compelling, nearly irresistible movie theme. "What a wonderful subject to explore in as many ways as possible," indie mogul Harvey Weinstein told the New York Post. "I hope our children get educated about the Holocaust, so it will be 'Never again.' " Death-camp literature is such a reliable attention getter that a few writers have invented memoirs. This week Berkley Books canceled publication of Angel...
...major curricular changes proposed this fall, the English department, in the largest overhaul of its undergraduate concentration in over 20 years, replaced all current requirements, except Shakespeare, with four subject areas, or "affinity groups"—this meant the dissolution of long-standing required courses like English 10a and 10b. Concentrators will have to take just one course in each of the categories—"Arrivals," "Poets," "Diffusions," and "Shakespeares"—to allow them to take more electives and individually shape their course of study. Meanwhile, the classics department had its own massive overhaul, unanimously approving...
...founding fathers had a fear of standing armies," says Stephen Dycus, who teaches national security law at Vermont Law School and co-authored a book on the subject, National Security Law. "Posse Comitatus is one expression of that. We've always had a problem of having the military involved in civil affairs. On the other hand, if we got in a bind, such as a plague released in Chicago, the only way to get out is to have the military involved. They've got the personnel, the training and the experience in use of force that other parts...
Reasonable minds can and do differ on this subject. Only future disasters will reveal who's right...