In 2006, Israeli director Eytan Fox produced The Bubble, a provocative film about young Tel Aviv roommates trying unsuccessfully to carve out a rewarding life for themselves as violent realities gradually close in on them.
SUNFLOWER, Miss. -- Joaquin Burse wants to go to Harvard and be a laser tech. You might think that's a lofty goal. Truth is, you have no idea how lofty it is.
When Israel's independence was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, as leaders of the nascent state sang Hatikva (Hope), few could have imagined the vibrant state that exists today.
DRUG-TRAFFICKING
A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their ''superlabs'' to fill the void.
BOOK EXCERPT
Below is an excerpt from ''Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town'' ($24.95, HarperCollins/Amistad), by Miami Herald journalist Ronnie Greene, to be released Tuesday.
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION
In this deeply rooted village in Southwest Florida, it's not unusual to find generations of the same family living doors apart. Now these lifelong settlers are bracing for their hamlet to die.
The groundwater here is poisoned with a liquid degreaser that is colorless and cancer-causing. Yet to date, a full study has not been launched to document cancer's spread throughout Tallevast.
IN MY OPINION | LEONARD PITTS JR.
My cousin thinks Jeremiah Wright walks on water. He is a minister, my cousin, and for years, whenever I've visited him in Chicago, he has asked the same question: Have I ever attended one of Rev. Wright's services? When I said no, he would lecture me on the wonderfulness of Wright, the innovative ministries he has started, the liberation theology he preaches. I owed it to myself, my cousin would say, to hear him speak.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Business, meaning research by historians and nourishment for history hobbyists, is brisk at the Harry S. Truman Library on this 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, the desegregation of the armed services, recognition of the state of Israel and the improbable election of the president responsible for many momentous policies. The library is a place, and now is a time, to ponder the transformation Truman wrought in the presidency and the Constitution, and why that transformation...
IN MY OPINION | CARL HIAASEN
If Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright were white, he'd probably have his own church show on television. Maybe even his own network. He could promise fantastic miracles that never come true and predict terrible disasters that never happen, and he could fleece millions of dollars from poor, gullible viewers.
MIAMI HERALD OMBUDSMAN
The different photographs that The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald ran this week of a Vietnamese girl with a massive facial tumor raise questions of when a picture is exploitive of its subject or offensive to us as readers.
Twenty-one years ago, T.D. Allman's book Miami: City of the Future was on the best-seller list for South Florida. Miami Herald reporter Mary Voboril wrote that Allman originally wanted to call his book Fantasy's Child, but instead the title was drawn from the 1983 Esquire magazine piece that inspired the book.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Twelve years ago, the guns in Bosnia fell silent after a war that killed at least 100,000 people and left more than two million homeless. Since then, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement has often been suggested as a model for other peace efforts in countries with deep ethnic or religious differences. Bosnia's ''federalism'' structure has been cited -- especially by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and former Council on Foreign Relations President Les Gelb -- as a possible model...
LEONARD PITTS JR. lpitts@miamiherald.com James Lawson is out of step with modern Christianity. Take gay marriage. Speaking in support of a proposed state constitutional ban on same sex unions, one Rev. Hayes Wicker of First Baptist Church in Naples, Fla., was recently quoted by The Naples Daily News as saying, ``This is a tremendous social crisis, greater even than the issue of slavery.''
People were surprised when I called my book Miami: City of the Future. In the aftermath of the Marielito invasion and the Liberty City riots, the conventional wisdom was that Miami was finished -- ''Paradise Lost,'' ''not really a part of America anymore.'' I had come to a different judgment, that Miami was a harbinger of the Americas to come.
MIAMI: STILL A CITY OF THE FUTURE
Has it really been over 20 years since Miami: City of the Future was published? T.D. Allman's book, which became a bestseller, arrived here about the same time I did. And while I loved his premise, I wasn't sure it was valid.
Determining the tax dollars that South Florida sends to state government and the state spending it gets in return was a time-consuming task -- something that Tallahassee insiders compared to searching for the Holy Grail.
MEXICO
As the U.S. economy heads south, Mexicans may have to head north. That's the fear of many workers here, where the slowdown in the United States already has cut production at manufacturing plants whose output is largely sold in the United States.
Martin Luther King's final campaign in Memphis was a march into a violent maelstrom of hatred and righteous defiance. Share your thoughts below on our coverage of the anniversary of the assassination and see what other readers are saying.
All bets are off in the Republican presidential primary. Frontrunners become underdogs, longshots become contenders, and the winner at the end of the race may come down to the candidate with the best timing.
