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...luxurious taste. Only a hint of capriciousness foreshadows his insane dictatorship. Whitaker’s charistmatic portrayal never wavers, but his character fades from charming to terrifying. McAvoy holds his own against Whitaker, solidly portraying an inherently weak character. Garrigan is an unheroic protagonist, who struggles as much to accept Amin’s evil as he does to act on his moral misgivings. Garrigan finds himself fallen into a world of moral relativism, highlighted by the character of Nigel Stone (Simon McBurney, “Friends With Money”), a British statesman. Stone is a slimy diplomat whose...
...refuse to accept it,” Rosenblum said...
...some friction. For example, Marcelle and Max Billaux say they know affluent French residents of Rabat's casbah who not only do not declare their domestics to authorities, but pay them j3 per day - not unlike the subservience wages some bosses in Europe pay illegal immigrants who will similarly accept nearly anything to land hard-won work. Moroccans who see such treatment happening at home could start asking where transcontinental integration stops and neocolonial exploitation starts. "We're aware this economic advantage that allows us to buy a home and live well here cuts two ways," says Marcelle Billaux...
...have a request here that I don't want to be in this cage anymore. It's dishonorable," said Saddam. But Judge Mohammad wouldn't accept his petition. " I'm the presiding judge. I decide about your presence here. Get him out!" Saddam then headed toward the door muttering, "It's a dishonor to look at your face...
...Even the Arab League proposal that Abbas is demanding Hamas accept as the basis for a unity government offers only conditional recognition - the Arab states would normalize relations with Israel if it agrees to withdraw to its 1967 borders. Hamas likes to dodge the issue by pointing out that Israel has no intention of doing that...