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Creator Nicole Kassell, making her feature writing and directing debut, delivers a disturbing, provocative tour-de-force that delves deeply into one man’s psyche. Starring Kevin Bacon as Walter, a convict just released from prison after serving a twelve-year sentence for molesting adolescent girls, The Woodsman provides a probing glimpse into the life of a deeply disturbed man struggling to vanquish his demons...
...been able to reach that dusky blue range, let alone cross it, and the headstrong young botanist was filled with "an enthusiastic pride of going farther than any person has yet been." Though he did just that, and managed to get home again, what Caley and his convict assistants encountered during their three-week expedition would permanently damage his health and later lead him to describe the trip as "the Devil's own journey." The wildness of the barely explored country they scrambled and climbed through was "beyond description," he wrote afterwards. "I cannot give you a more expressive idea...
...Obama pushed through a bill requiring police to videotape homicide confessions. Similar bills had failed before. But Obama won over police and lawmakers because he didn't just talk about injustice. He talked about efficient policing, and he noted that videos could also serve as a "powerful tool to convict the guilty." Says New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine: "There's an optimism and lack of anger. There is a reach for a positive framing of even negative issues...
...Michael Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fiancé. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest...
Jurors will at a minimum have the option to convict Pring-Wilson of first-degree murder—which would put the him behind bars for life—as well as second-degree murder, under which the defendant would face a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 15 years...