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...which a masked man attacks a stranger, knocks him unconscious, and amputates his thumb. Meanwhile, a voiceover declares, “Good and bad are not so absolute.” What follows for the next two hours is little more than an exercise in human depravity. The film centers on the various members of the Michaelson family. Eli (Alan Rickman) is the cantankerous patriarch, and a Nobel-prize winning chemist; his wife Sarah (Mary Steenburgen) is a long-suffering forensic psychiatrist who has accepted her husband’s wandering eye. Their struggling son, Barkley (Bryan Greenberg...
...Having emptied herself of this immutable truth, Felicity slumped forward, gasping for air. Frederick’s eyes glazed in incomprehension. Roxanna’s expressed mute astonishment. The Stable Boy stepped down from the chair into the center of the room. He stood against the sunbeam from the window, the light so bright that his form was almost silhouetted against it. With his arms crossed across his chest and a malevolent smile setting his face gloriously ablaze, he seemed to hover just an inch above the carpet...
...seemed that the Crimson was cruising to its fifth win of the year as the team led 68-62 with just over a minute to play, but Vermont junior Courtnay Pilypaitis had other things in mind. The Cantamount guard sunk a three point shot from deep center court to bring Vermont within three of the Crimson with 1:06 left in the second half. A steal and subsequent jump shot by Vermont’s Andrea Cihal brought Vermont within one of the Crimson just twelve seconds later. But this was the last threat that the Cantamounts could mount. Ultimately...
...spoils are huge. "We estimate about 400 metric tons of cocaine are moving through the Central American corridor, meaning most of it would go through Guatemala," says U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Stephen McFarland. That makes for a business worth over $7 billion, based on the National Drug Intelligence Center's estimated average wholesale price of cocaine in Los Angeles...
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian made history again on Friday as prosecutors indicted him and his wife for corruption charges. After becoming the first former president to be detained for corruption at the Taipei Detention Center on Nov. 12, Taiwan's Supreme prosecutor's office indicted Chen, his wife, his son and his daughter-in-law on a list of charges that included money laundering, embezzlement, bribery and forgery. The office suggested "a severe punishment" for Chen - which could mean a life sentence - because "he showed no remorse and even attacked the judicial system," according to according...