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Without law and order, says Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and...
Tension builds and the film unravels when a boyhood friend of Ace's named Nick Santorro (Pesci) moves to Las Vegas. Nick is an enforcer whose job is to protect Ace. Instead he uses his innate charm and frantic firsts to intimidate just about everyone in Las Vegas. Nick's...
Whatever the alchemy that makes a star of a fine singer, Terfel has it. All his Metropolitan Opera performances this fall in the title role of The Marriage of Figaro and as Leporello in Don Giovanni "went clean" -- theatrical slang for sold out -- before the first curtain went up, and...
The United States "doesn't want to be seen as the aggressor and the enforcer, especially in third world countries and the Western European basin," says Tim E. Codrington '95, who lives in Barbados. "If the U.S. had gone in shooting guns and storming the place, people would have said...
In the early 1960s, no one would have thought Joseph Ratzinger would become the enforcer of conservatism. At the Second Vatican Council, from 1962 to 1965, Ratzinger and Kung were young theological stars advising the West German contingent. In those heady days, Ratzinger and Kung applauded from the sidelines as...