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Yamashita's script is much more relentlessly cruel. In essence, the Japanese officers compelled the bravery (and suicide) of their troops at gunpoint. Only the Japanese commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (a mysterious historical figure who fascinates Eastwood), and a fictional conscript, Saigo, whose fate Yamashita intertwines with his commanding officer's, demonstrate anything like humanity as a Westerner might understand it. The lieutenant general, educated in part in the U.S., is respectful of its national spirit (and industrial might) and believes that a live soldier, capable of carrying on the fight, is infinitely more valuable than a dead...
...exception clause to torture in circumstances of eminent danger.In one of the best-supported congressional revolts in President George W Bush’s five years in office, the Senate voted 90-9 last month in favor of McCain’s ban. But the bill’s fate still depends on negotiations in the Conference Committee of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives. And not only is the House more loyal to the administration, but three of the nine senators who voted against the measure are on the Conference Committee. However, McCain?...
...faith, he said, that made it possible for him to risk his life to do his job: ensuring that even members of Saddam's brutal regime got a fair trial. Despite the danger of assassination-a second member of the defense team was killed last month-he put his fate in the hands of God. "I believe now we are sitting together," he told TIME in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Bar Association on Monday, "but tomorrow maybe we cannot sit together because of the death...
Karabel has unearthed a letter to a faculty member in which Lowell explains that “The summer hotel that is ruined by admitting Jews meets its fate, not because the Jews it admits are of bad character, but because they drive away the Gentiles, and then after the Gentiles have left, they leave also...
Once you start allowing your students to debate the merits of a democratic university or the value of the living wage sit-in, your fate at Harvard is sealed...