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Steps toward redemption: Israel and Palestine
By DANIEL BOGARD
As with every piece of writing, this one is written with a pre-standing bias, and in order to be fair, I should disclose mine before I begin. I’m a Jew and many would consider me a Zionist. I don’t mean this in the traditional sense, but in that I think it likely that I will move to Israel and become a citizen, as is every Jew’s right—and guarantee—since 1948. I’m also an adamant liberal, albeit a cynical one, and have long supported Students for a Free Tibet and other such causes. However, I identify more and more with Judaism than with any other group. I’m not religious by nature, but like many American Jews, I still am very much Jewish.
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Principles of ‘Just War’ should be applied to Iraq
By NICK MEYER
Paragraph 2309 of the Catholic Catechism is known as the “Just War Theory” and has been widely accepted as the measure of whether a war is morally acceptable. It was conceived in Medieval Europe by St. Thomas Aquinas and has been used as a litmus test this century to decide if a war is justifiable. For example, World War II largely met the requirements, while Vietnam did not. The theory states that four conditions must be met “at one and the same time: the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.” These four principles must be taken into account before the United States strikes at Iraq.
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Get Spirited Away by Miyazaki’s cartoon!
By DANIEL BURGESS
It’s rare that a foreign film (and an animated one, no less) lands on American shores with quite as much hype as Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature, Spirited Away. And that hype isn’t without reason. Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke) is arguably the greatest anime director in history, and when a director achieves that kind of stature, his movies don’t tend to get ignored. Add that to the fact that Spirited Away set a box office record in Japan and it happened to get picked up by Disney for its United States release, and … well, watch out.
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Reflections in a golden eye: Six by Orson Welles
By BEN SACHS
Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington made a memorable observation last year about Francis Ford Coppola’s re-edited version of Apocalypse Now. Wilmington wrote that the new edition was a better film overall because it was no longer a single man’s statement, but a collaboration between the older, wiser Coppola, who reconfigured the footage, and the younger, more restless Coppola, who shot it originally.
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