Cinema verite?

Article Abstract:

Oliver Stone's film, 'Nixon,' has been dismissed as historical nonsense, but Mark Carnes, chairman of the history department at Barnard College, Columbia University, argues that historical films stimulate thought and that most historians love them. Historical films tend to contain many historical inaccuracies yet US historians are placing increasing reliance on films to interest their students. Robert Rosenstone of the California Institute of Technology points out that no-one dismisses Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' despite the many factual errors contained in it.

Historians, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public opinion, Historical films, Historical movies

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As dirty a war as can be

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A number of academics have been murdered during the latter years of Columbia's civil war. The war has been going on for 35 years and it is thought some 335,000 people have been killed during the war. It is unclear whether the murderers are right or left wing sympathisers, as the deaths are not claimed by any group. Many students feel very upset at the death of Professor Jesus Antonio Bejarano Avia in Sept 1999. He had been a supporter of peace in Columbia. Some observers suggest Marxist guerrillas may have killed Bejarano because he had asked the Marxists to compromise for peace.

Crimes against, College teachers, College faculty, Military aspects, Colombia, Civil war, Bejarano Avila, Jesus Antonio

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Catcher of the wry

Article Abstract:

Alison Lurie is a novelist who teaches at Cornell University. She teaches half time and continues to write. The writing course at Cornell offers four places with everything paid for, and competition for those places is intense. The course is relatively traditional. Lurie sees brown women as having more advantages in obtaining a publisher than pink men. She argues the people should not be afraid of political correctness, though changes in fashion can be difficult for writers.

Social aspects, Publishing industry, Authors, Writers, Interview, Works

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