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Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
Everyone must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures). At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better tomorrow.
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
At a time like this, when the world—literally the whole world—waits on words, it is bracing to hear hope extolled, and exhilarating to think hard about the foundations of peace and how we might lay them down.
Reviews of the films Talk to Her; The Pianist; Ned Kelly; Sur Mes Lèvres; and The Hours.
We can all take it as read that various shivers have gone down various spines in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The real question is whether one is going down ours.
Letters from Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
When we associate a year with a nation, the people of that nation have usually had little to celebrate. This has been the year of Iraq.
Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.
Bruce Duncan looks at the role of the church following the war in Iraq
Kate Stowell visits Uzbekistan, a democratic republic still under the reign of its former communist party leader.
Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.