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...earlier this month, in accordance with much of the advice outlined in a memo written by Ryan in 1995, Rwanda did away with the orthodox trial system. In its place, it has reinstituted the gacaca ( pronounced ga-CHA-cha), an ancient tribal custom—literally “justice on the grass” in Kinyarwandan, Rwanda’s most spoken language...
Crime (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), from L&O producer Dick Wolf, borrows not just L&O's cha-chung! sound between scenes but also its pro-prosecution bent. Made in cooperation with San Diego prosecutors, it finds raw drama in cases of murder and child molestation; after one verdict, a courtroom melee breaks out. As reality TV, it's riveting, addictive and well told. As a civics lesson, it's manipulative and tendentious. We have access only to the D.A.s, so the presumption of innocence, unpopular with crime-show viewers anyway, gets 86ed, and every emotional cue prods...
...Waters - or Honey Brown, whom Vidor fired and replaced with McKinney - couldn't have sold sexuality, with all its lures, all its destructiveness, the way Nina did. Before deserting Zeke for the last time, Chick douses his suspicions of her infidelity by walking toward him and purring, "Let cha baby sit on yo' lap and make ya feel so good." She takes a heavy breath before the word "feel", which she gives an extra erotic syllable. She perches on him, humming him senseless with "St. Louis Woman," then sashays off for her rendezvous with comeuppance. At her death, her huge...
...poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick's were decorated with multicolored and multilingual posters: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY UNLESS ORDAINED IN BOSTON and CHUNG CON LUON O BEN CHA (Vietnamese for WE SUPPORT YOU, FATHER...
...Gyun Woo (Cha Tae-hyun) sees a drunk girl (Jeon Ji-hyun) late one night on the subway. He watches her throw up over two fellow travelers and collapse, but not before she's called him "Honey" on the way down. Says Gyun Woo in narrative: "This one word just screwed up my life...