Word: truthful
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...opinions, not answers, just as Moody described in 1909. Thus, some claim, they should be exempt from rebuke. According to The Wall Street Journal, many credit-rating agencies intend to use the constitutional right to free speech as a defense against upcoming litigation cases. While this may be juridical truth, and a clever defense, conflicts of interest and careless behavior will remain even under the old, investor-paid model. All the regulators can do is continue to effectively cooperate with rating agencies, working to create a better—albeit imperfect—system...
...framed in terms of black and white. Another is director Michael Raeburn, who has just released Triomf, a bleak examination of a poor Johannesburg family - who happen to be white. "There's suddenly a sense in South Africa that we don't have to make films only about truth and reconciliation," says Raeburn. "We can make romantic comedies, gay movies, horror movies - anything we like. There's a real energy out there. It's a real creative moment...
...particular - an epic of racist repression that climaxes in a transcendent moment of redemption under an iconic leader - is a movie script made real. And Hollywood has shot that script over and over again. In 2004, Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche made In My Country about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the mid- to late '90s, and Hilary Swank starred as an attorney representing a black South African political activist seeking amnesty in Red Dust. Then came Catch a Fire (terrorism during apartheid) with Tim Robbins in 2006 and Goodbye Bafana (the friendship between Mandela...
...obsession with South Africa hasn't carried over into the box office. Many of the U.S. films of the past few years have struggled to get a release. Those that have, flopped. Why? "Audiences like authenticity - something that's real and from the heart," says producer Raleigh. The truth is that no country is ever as simple as black and white, let alone one with South Africa's unrivalled ethnic mix and bloody history. When Tsotsi won its best foreign film Oscar in 2006, the cast and crew went to Mandela's house for a celebration. "After he congratulated...
...greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, Los Angeles...