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Jonathan Nossiter says he never wanted to make a film about wine. The American filmmaker and sommelier thought it would be too hard to avoid the snob image that his favorite beverage often evokes. A slick portrait of oenophiles spouting pretentious adjectives as they decant a product the audience can...
Killing a citizen of a sovereign nation in order to bring him freedom is morally abhorrent. To be sure, such calculations usually occur in a context where soldiers’ lives are at stake, but if America is to be true to its stated goals of bringing security and stability...
European Heroes The story on Dr. Ervigio Corral Torres, head of SAMUR, Madrid's emergency-services unit, praised his efforts after the March 11 attacks in Madrid [Oct. 11]. But several emergency services were involved that day, and all of them - including SERMAS (the Madrid Health Service), the Red Cross...
ONE IRONY OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE is how a plethora of choices has served to separate and isolate us. We have become electronic and ideological shut-ins. Nowhere is this willful know-nothingism more apparent than in the current political quagmire, in which candidates and their rabid supporters ferociously cleave...
Finally, there's the teen boy as idealized by cable-political-news producers. The WB's Jack & Bobby (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) follows two teen brothers: older, athletic Jack McAllister (Matt Long) and younger, asthmatic Bobby (Logan Lerman). Through a framing device--flash-forward excerpts from a political documentary--we...