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...polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
...made some sense that Elie Wiesel chose Venice as the place to bring together 30 interesting adolescents ("Tomorrow's Leaders") from various battlefields around the world (Bosnia, several African countries, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, some of the more violent neighborhoods of American cities) to talk about their lives. Venice, with its gorgeous, impastoed melancholy, exhausted the possibilities of human glory and depravity centuries ago. Wiesel's young, all vulnerability and fire, assembled at the other end of history altogether. Furious at what the blackhearted past has done to them, they made friends across their inherited fault lines (Israeli with...
...Wiesel meant, in part, to audition the future while it is still in its teens. He told the young, "Some of us have access to the leaders of the world. But all the meetings we have had have been disappointments. So we wanted to start before you become leaders...
...Korie's treatment, Milk becomes a combination of Elie Wiesel, Oscar Wilde and Moses. He likens America's treatment of gays to the Holocaust and, in an embarrassing coda, leads his rambunctious flock to the gates of sexual and political freedom without quite being able to enter himself. The truth is somewhat different: Milk was an engaging if slightly goofy pol whose defining moment to most San Franciscans was his televised illustration of how to obey the pooper-scooper law. While the Milk legend may not be justified, Korie does use it to create a narrative that pulls the listener...
That is why it is impossible to forget. That is why it is so difficult to forgive. ``Although we know that God is merciful, please, God, have no mercy on those who have created this place,'' prayed Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during the Jewish observance. ``God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here. Remember the nocturnal processions of children and more children and more children, frightened, quiet, so quiet and so beautiful. If we could simply look at one, our hearts would break.'' Wiesel knows. He was 14 when he entered Auschwitz...