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...know, I invented a ratings system," he told the Hollywood Reporter just before he retired in 2004, "which understood two things: One, the First Amendment reigns. Freedom of speech. Freedom of content. The director is free to make any movie he wants to make and not have to cut a millimeter of it. But freedom without responsibility is anarchy. The director will know he can do that, but some of his films may be restricted from viewing by children. Now I thought that was a balancing of the moral compact. It'll be 36 years old in November. Very...
First of all, I was shocked by how little people in the country understood the depth of injury. Secondly, I also felt great guilt about having survived and recovered as well as I have, compared with many others. And I do have less fear of dying compared with what I felt before...
...being overtaken by an even greater catastrophe, a three-month drought that wiped out the maize crop, fueling tensions between government-allied haves and opposition have-nots. Apart from drought, other environmental challenges can prove deadly. A growing number of experts believe the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is best understood as a contest between too many people on too little land...
Smith earned a reputation both for bringing home the groceries and brooking no nonsense from settlers who wouldn't pull their weight or who put self-interest above the colony's needs. He made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered...
...Russian state's most lucrative economic assets to a cabal of oligarchs in exchange for their funding of his reelection in 1996. Indeed, it is in the context of the failings of the Yeltsin years that the authoritarian nationalist orientation of his successor, President Vladimir Putin, is best understood...