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...These are the basic facts: foreigners are being held indefinitely at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, under orders from President Bush. The legal status of these detainees is in flux as the administration argues before the judiciary that American laws do not apply to overseas military installations. Appeals have worked their way up to the Supreme Court, which has sided with the administration...
Theron, born in South Africa, is an actress most noted for her work in dramatic films, such as the recent “North Country.” “Aeon Flux,”—a science-fiction movie based on Peter Chung’s early ’90’s MTV series—is a marked departure. The movie chronicles the action-packed struggle of the sexy, leather-clad secret agent Aeon Flux as she works to fracture the warped state of Bregna...
...this idea of a “human core” that first drew Theron to the complex character of Aeon Flux, whom Theron says she deems a “very different kind of a female superhero.” While the character is a crime-fighter attempting to restore order and combat injustice in the future, Theron notes that she “sometimes did not think of this as a futuristic film at all,” and that the character “was very real” to her. Flux is “constantly?...
Although she suffered a herniated disk in her neck while doing a back handspring in fall 2004, and production shut down for about seven weeks to allow for the star’s recovery, a healed and mentally rejuvenated Theron returned ready as ever to bring Flux to life, determined to do her own physical work: “That was so much a part of the character for me that I could not imagine just having stunt people...
Laibson responded that the EPC’s policy on honors is still “in flux...