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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...surprising if the decision [on Mohamed] was not taken at a high level. The question is how high," says Stafford Smith, who is also the director of the legal charity Reprieve. During a live broadcast of Britain's nightly Channel 4 News on March 26, the attorney was more explicit. "The British investigation cannot just stop at the British people because the real torturers ... were the Americans and the Pakistanis and the Moroccans," he said. (See pictures inside Guantánamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the U.S. Help Britain with Its Terror Probe? | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...Nell (Collette Wolfe), a crippled coffee shop server, plays a more human, likable, and sympathetic character, even if it remains unclear why she insists on liking Ronnie in the first place. Surprisingly, “Observe and Report” scores high on shock value in several moments, featuring explicit (and often cringe-inducing) nudity and visual violence. As Ronnie takes down six crack dealers on a dark corner with a single stick, the camera immediately zooms in on a dislocated joint and shows Ronnie kicking a thug’s already bloodied face in excruciating detail. The grim violence...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Observe And Report | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...furious at Pyongyang - it had earlier in the week threatened to shoot the missile down - and immediately after the launch asked for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to take place on Sunday. Both Tokyo and the South Korean government believe the rocket launch was an explicit violation of a 2006 U.N. resolution that insisted the North "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile." But North Korea insists it has the right to place communications satellites into orbit, and the U.S. military on Sunday confirmed that the payload atop the latest rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Warnings, North Korea Launches Rocket | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...course, the enchanting essence of the story is much more akin to that of the original Grimm stories than their doe-eyed Disney counterparts (it revolves around shocking wartime occurrences) but Lind’s gift for eccentric descriptions of characters and events transforms the more gruesome and explicit scenes into something strangely pallatable. Lind’s descriptions endow the starved, inhuman, and ruthless characters of the war with unreal qualities that make the whole narrative easier to digest. Ironically, this seemingly simplistic, almost whimsical lens allows Lind to humanize the effect of the war on people. For instance...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Nazi Lost in the 'Concrete' | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...says that when their indie comedy Orgazmo was slapped with an NC-17, they were given no hints in cutting the film to get a less proscriptive rating. Yet two years later, when Paramount was behind their movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the board, according to Stone, offered explicit help in which scenes might be softened or removed to achieve an R." (See pictures of great animated movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacha Baron Cohen and the Censors: Will Brüno Be NC-17? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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