Render Unto Caesar, & Sometimes to Foreign Torturers: Renditionby George Sax |
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The other day, the New York Times’ lead article was about a couple of hitherto secret US Justice Department memoranda from 2005 which sought to justify prisoner interrogation methods much of the rest of the world calls torture. President Bush responded to this report by flatly declaring, “This government does not torture people.” |
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Right & Wrong: Gone Baby Goneby M. Faust |
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Has this been a good month for movies or what? Already playing are Michael Clayton, In the Valley of Elah, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and We Own the Night. Opening this week are Sean Penn’s Into the Wild and Rendition. Even some of the bigger movies that haven’t been very good are at least targeted to adults—Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Jane Austen Book Club, The Kingdom. |