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Tears welled up in my eyes before I could finish reading about Perez. Where do we get such dedicated young people to serve us without reservation? A life so special should not have ended in a far-off land away from family and friends. From the beginning of this tragic war, I have maintained that we had no right to be in Iraq. There is nothing there to warrant the sacrifice of our finest young people. Not oil, not the Iraqis and not the unlikely hope of spreading democracy. It is time to bring our finest home...
...love the country” without a modicum of ironic inflection.In its depiction of Marie’s private life, the film is gentle and forgiving. Through Coppola’s lens, Marie’s excess and indulgence achieve a sort of wistful purity and tragic transcendence, as if sadly embodying a spoiled, yet lonely child’s melancholic yearning. The movie is, above all, a testament to incongruity and ambivalence: much as Marie is at once dangerously unrestrained and wholly stifled, Coppola herself is simultaneously attentive to historic detail and not unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly...
This is more than a coincidence: the quotation gets to the heart of the cultural moment. Both movies demonstrate that powerful leaders’ human flaws inevitably instigate tragic consequences that cause succession. As their respective countries turn against President Bush and Tony Blair for overreaching their authority on failed quests—particularly the “War on Terror”—these films seem perfectly timed. But the relationship between the political reality and the cinematic representation of leadership uncertainty seems surprisingly elliptical for Hollywood, particularly during the last few years...
...first glance, it seems as though we might have reached the point where our leaders’ plight has become so pathetic that they are no longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...
...thousands” of other women attesting to having had an abortion. It tries to be harrowing, introspective, and devastating, but mostly comes across as silly and intellectually incoherent. The most widely deployed rationale among pro-choicers justifies abortion as a private matter, a kind of tragic decision of women affecting their bodies and their lives, with which an overzealous, Puritanical, and totalitarian government must not interfere. Yet by airing all this laundry, Ms. Magazine denies the very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories...