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...pages, the opening takes a while) Harry is tried before the Wizengamot—the Wizard High Court—which is considering expelling him from Hogwarts on trumped up charges. I’m guessing the Ad Board isn’t located in a dungeon-courtroom ten floors below University Hall, but its proceedings are cloaked in secrecy, just like the Wizengamot’s. Like evildoers in Cambridge, Harry stands with one advocate before a panel of various high-ranking wizards, who vote on whether to kick him out or not. Luckily the secretive proceedings...
Chen Kaige has done his time in the dungeon of film pessimism. The Chinese director's best-known works, Farewell My Concubine and Temptress Moon, are epics of loss and betrayal. Chen knows these pangs firsthand: as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to denounce his father, a distinguished filmmaker. But one streak in him runs deeper than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen...
...torture of athletes, especially members of the national soccer team who performed below his expectations. Last weekend TIME found tangible evidence of that torture. In the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad, hidden in a pile of leaves, was that must-have of every medieval dungeon, an iron maiden. The sarcophagus-shaped device, with spikes to pierce any unfortunate placed inside, was clearly worn from use. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. It was brought to TIME's attention by looters: they had stripped the site...
...TIME found what may be the first solid proof of torture in Uday's own backyard - the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Laying on its side beneath a pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness...
...first tangible evidence pointing to torture in Uday's own backyard, the administrative compound of the Iraqi national Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Hidden in a pile of dead leaves, not 20 yards from the building housing the Iraqi Football Association, was that must-have appliance of every medieval dungeon: an iron maiden...