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...weekend. But if a movie's high points are a quick smack of carnage and a steely speech that everyone's already seen in the trailer, you know it must be January. That's the time of year when no film is bad enough to go direct to DVD, and studios dump their slag on a public eager to flee from all those high-minded Oscar contenders and see a real movie...
...Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, the court's first defendant. The trial of Lubanga for training child-soldiers during the region's 2002-03 ethnic conflict is also the first test of an international law allowing victims--like the 93 people expected to testify against him--to play a direct role in court. The ICC has 108 member countries. That does not include the U.S., which never ratified the treaty establishing the court...
...same long odds applied to Slumdog Millionaire, the Anglo-Indian movie about these outsiders. It was in danger of losing a U.S. theatrical release and going direct to DVD when the company that owned it was shuttered. Yet the film, made for $13 million, has earned nearly $60 million in North America. And after top wins at the Golden Globes and from the Producers and Screen Actors guilds, it's the front runner to take the Academy Award for Best Picture on Oscar night, Feb. 22. Miracle, anyone? (See the top 10 movie performances...
...make which decisions. They called one another out on unacceptable interpersonal behavior: failure to share information, lack of follow-through, riding roughshod over others, unilateral decision-making, backbiting and subterfuge. Michaels made it clear that he expected to be treated like every other member of the team. He wanted direct feedback and insisted on being held accountable for commitments and results. By the end of the two days, Michaels' team was on its way to becoming great...
Talk of war is a long way from traditional peacekeeping. But it is a direct consequence of the open-ended nature of R2P, and it raises troubling questions. Where does the responsibility to protect end? Does it mean fighting a national army? Does it mean supplanting a national government? Does it mean accepting the large losses that would inevitably accompany intervention in Somalia--the site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis--or in totalitarian states like Burma? Doss insists there are limits to what he proposes. "We assist the national process. We do not replace it," he says...