Word: duress
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...devour and defile. In The Quiet American, Phuong is as much metaphor as flesh. Yet the actress playing her must evoke the humanity and the hurt within a succulent love object. That is the sweet surprise of Do Thi Hai Yen's performance. With a smile that suggests duress and glances that murmur reproach, Yen speaks for Vietnam. "She suffers much," Yen says of Phuong, "but she keeps her character...
...fast from multiple gunshot wounds suffered as he tried to escape the strike force of Pakistani security officers, supported by FBI and CIA personnel, who tracked him down in central Pakistan. U.S. officials find him surprisingly talkative, for an unrepentant fanatic, but insist he's not being subjected to duress and is not heavily drugged. Says one: "We have our ways." Yes, but so does Abu Zubaydah. --By Elaine Shannon
...receiving excellent medical care," says an official. He's said to be surly but willing to engage with the Americans holding him. Why? U.S. officials insist he's not being subjected to duress and is not heavily drugged. Still, "we have our ways," one official says...
...horror stories exploding onto front pages are modifying church behavior, whether its leaders like it or not. Under duress, some bishops have scrambled to announce "zero tolerance" toward any priest, past or present, against whom allegations have been made. Up to a dozen Los Angeles priests have been quietly dismissed in recent weeks. Southern California's Orange County diocese removed the Rev. Michael Pecharich from his church in early March as soon as it substantiated a single case of abuse, which was decades old. And when Kathryn Barrett-Gaines and her sister, now in their 30s, contacted the archdiocese...
...original Mormon pioneers came to Utah under duress--their founder, Joseph Smith, was murdered in Illinois in 1844, and his followers fled westward to escape persecution. Modern-day non-Mormon settlers will come only because they want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise...