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When he is not writing about education, Kozol scatters himself all over the social and political terrain of modern America, touching on many of the well-worn bases of American ignominy. We are callous ("Death, murder, exploitation is not credible."), especially the wealthy ("The rich man carves his beefsteak with impunity because he first applies the knifeblade to his brain."); nobody is willing to take responsibility anymore ("Businesses incorporate themselves with somewhat the same goal: in order to achieve immunity from consequences of their own behavior.") Kozol weaves back and forth, often repeating his arguments. The result is not enlightment...
Angry Turks. In 1966 the government offered to help residents of Lice relocate their homes on safer, flatter terrain below the existing village. Only 150 families were willing to make the move. Their reinforced concrete homes-unlike the older stone and mortar houses on the hillside-survived the recent earthquake with only slight damage. After a special five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks...
...friend. Realizing that he could no longer help him, Meeker raced for the Austrian border four miles away. Blood from his wounds made his maps unreadable, and the damaged turbine gulped twice as much fuel as it was supposed to. Luckily, Meeker knew his way through the difficult terrain and dangerous wind currents. He set the chopper down where he had landed many times before, next to a hospital at Traunstein, 15 miles inside West Germany. He had 80 seconds of fuel left...
...wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, the broad Snake River, bounded by stands of aspen and lodgepole pine, affords both white-water rapids boating and lazy, meandering raft rides. Backpackers can trek into some of the ruggedest terrain in the Rockies...
...gives you--and it's sad to see them caught by the police (one of whom is Harvard professor John Womack-don't even try to figure that out), especially when they don't really know what's going on. But they're so unaware and insulated from the terrain upon which moral judgements are made that their crimes are uninteresting, and you never see the connection to 1950's America or whatever is supposed to justify their deadhead lost-child innocence-turned-guilt. Malick shows gory murders, then our sympathetic characters, and the inevitable tearing-apart this inflicts...