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...familiar screen faces and nonprofessionals - is no more than efficient. But because violence erupts without warning, Gomorrah keeps you alert through the mundane parts. In the first scene, meaty men get gunned down in a tanning salon. That sets the movie's dramatic coordinates. People die stepping outside their front door, or in a whorehouse, or just fooling around on the street. In a typical crime movie, there's a suspenseful buildup to the bog kills. Here, death explodes prosaically, capriciously, as in Baghdad or Kabul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gomorrah: Scarface for Real | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...year period in order to relieve severe overcrowding. The court stated that overcrowding was the primary reason for what it called “unconstitutional conditions” in California’s prisons—conditions that judges said were so poor that prisoners regularly commit suicide or die from lack of adequate health care...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Prison Nation | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...gave our recipe to the bartender, and the taste test ensued. The verdict? Against all odds, team inexperienced beat out team bartender, and “The Obama” was introduced to the masses. Yes we can. While it was quite the experience wading through thousands of die-hard Obama fans to get to the Citibank building, Nick, Rebecca, and I felt we had the best of both worlds when we took refuge inside of it. We could go down to street level for a taste of the craziness, and we could go up to the rooftop (where Secret...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Window 21 to the World | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Pope John Paul II was too ill to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, the comatose Florida woman who ended up at the center of a very public tussle between Christians and right-to-die activists. Those who wanted Schiavo to stay on life support would later point to the fact that the pontiff and Schiavo died within two days of each other in the spring of 2005 as a sign from above that treatment and sustenance should never be interrupted. No doubt activists on both sides of the issue will find moving symbolism in Monday evening's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Controversial End to Italy's Own Terri Schiavo Case | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...emergency bill introduced by Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi that would have forced doctors to resume life-support. When news of the death reached the Senate floor, there was a moment of silence before several Berlusconi allies began shouting: "Assassins!" Another center-right Senator, Gaetano Quagliariello, declared: "Eluana didn't die, she was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Controversial End to Italy's Own Terri Schiavo Case | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

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