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...EASTERN PROMISES The new melodrama from David Cronenberg, the Canadian director with three decades of weird thrills on his résumé, has the vibe of his last one, A History of Violence. Viggo Mortenson is again a charismatic mystery man involved with organized crime. This time, in a script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), it's the Russian mob in London. Naomi Watts plays the innocent trapped in a toxic...
Percentage of global survey respondents who ranked crime and lawlessness among their top three personal concerns, according to a GfK Roper study. Other top worries included recession and unemployment, personal finances and education...
...disgusting," before reminding the jury that sin is bipartisan: "I think we've all heard the story about Bill Clinton and the fact that he let us down in his personal conduct with a White House intern." John McCain called Craig's conduct "disgraceful," but to him the crime was political--"It harms our reputation with the American people"--as though the current public contempt for politicians weren't actually driven by the same partisan, poll-parsing instinct he was demonstrating. On the other side, one gleeful wing of the commentariat seized on Craig as just the latest family-values...
...denounce Larry Craig's indiscretion in an airport men's room. "It's disgusting," Romney said of the man who used to be his Senate liaison. Senator John McCain, a Romney rival, echoed those sentiments, saying: "He should resign. My opinion is that when you plead guilty to a crime you shouldn't serve." Many of Craig's Republican colleagues in the Senate, meanwhile, are clamoring to get him to step down...
...failing to issue the proper paperwork for adoptions. Worse, says Carmen de Wennier, Guatemala's Secretary for Social Welfare, Casa Quivira is being investigated for illegally trafficking infants, an accusation that its owners vehemently deny: "If these children were bought in the womb," de Wennier says, "that is a crime...