Word: cassel
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READ MY LIPS, being French, is wryer and dryer. A mousy, overworked executive secretary (Emmanuelle Devos) is given permission to hire a trainee-assistant. She chooses a newly paroled con (Vincent Cassel), a hunky lunk, but observant enough to divine her well-kept secret, which is that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part...
...thing, it might give prosecutors more incentive to cut deals. No public trial means no messy public disclosures of information the government considers sensitive. "The government sees they don't have to spill the beans if they take a plea bargain," says Douglas Cassel, director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University and an attorney specializing in international human rights...
...successful use of the civilian court system in Lindh's case is something of a public relations triumph, and one that might influence whether Hamdi and Padilla are tried in civilian or military courts. It's easier to fight a war when you are not employing unpopular methods, and Cassel thinks the prosecution of the two men may eventually reflect this insight. "The government needs to take another look at the other cases in light of what's happened in the Lindh prosecution," he says, "and they should consider using the U.S. legal system over the U.S. military system...
...someone who was arrested well outside a "war zone" (as defined by traditional rules of war, anyway) should Padilla be treated as a suspected criminal? Douglas Cassel, director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University Law School, thinks so. "Charges should be brought, a trial should be scheduled, and he should be allowed to see a lawyer," Cassel says. "They're maintaining they can hold him for the duration of the war on terror - which could easily be years, or even decades - without ever charging him with a crime...
...East goalie Bayne, drivers Crosby and Seth Cassel, All-East two-meter Sean Cheng and two-meter defenseman Marty Schoen formed the core of a group that had arrived in Floerchinger’s first year, when Harvard was much less prominent on the water polo...