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Indeed, Moore is the General Motors--the old, powerful version--of the doc community. Other people make nonfiction political films, and good ones. Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's American Casino is a scrupulous study of the home-mortgage crisis; it shifts between Wall Street critics and the working-class folks whose lives were ruined as they lost their homes. But Casino, which plays like a superior edition of the PBS series Frontline, can now be seen in just a few theaters. It seems that doc films can thrive only if they star Michael Moore...
...audiences are attracted to and entertained by Moore--but what is the political effect of his star quality? In Capitalism, after cogently diagnosing the collusion of Wall Street and Congress in cooking this mess, he ends not by urging tough legislation but by calling for community activism and labor-union muscle. The problem is that movies, even Michael Moore movies, aren't an efficient method for rousing a constituency. Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't do half the damage to George W. Bush that the Swift Boat smears did to John Kerry. Sicko couldn't change lawmakers' minds on health care...
...Conn., wrapped up their investigation into the brutal slaying of a Yale University medical student. Police charged Raymond Clark III, a laboratory technician, with strangling Annie Le, 24, on Sept. 8 in the Yale lab where they both worked. Her body was found in a crawl space behind a wall five days later, on what was to be her wedding day. That heartrending coincidence and Le's promising future helped attract national attention to the Ivy League crime...
Rose invited several Wall Street analysts and a former director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission to speak to the class...
...students, who numbered about 30 in 2008, found the material—a history of finance—pertinent to the current events of developments on Wall Street. Student discussion often drifted towards the news, Moss says...