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...Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law who has defended a doctor charged with genocide, finds torture legally reprehensible but sees some moral wiggle room when it comes to Zubaydah. "In the realm of morality, while torturing a human being is forbidden, it is nevertheless required to save human lives," he says...
...Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law who has defended a doctor charged with genocide, finds torture legally reprehensible but sees some moral wiggle room when it comes to Zubaydah. "In the realm of morality, while torturing a human being is forbidden, it is nevertheless required to save human lives," he says...
...course, the slipstream of security fears hasn't lifted all charter operators. "Security managers at many Swedish companies have forbidden all types of flying," bemoans Trond Michaelsen, owner of Aircraft Charter World in Stockholm. "They see terrorists everywhere." Michaelsen expected a surge in business after the terror attacks; instead corporate security fiats have halved his trade. And some executives may worry that the smaller planes many charter firms use aren't as safe as commercial airliners, though the figures are equivocal. In any case, Michaelsen expects his business to rebound within six months...
...world-renowned American director, Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), is trying to make a movie in Beijing's Forbidden City when he suffers a creative drought and can't even work out where to place the camera. He falls seriously ill, and his last wish, as he slips into a coma, is to have a "comedy funeral" in the Forbidden City. Accordingly, his cameraman YoYo (Ge You) markets the funeral as a globally televised event, auctioning ad space to Chinese companies. Huh? Precisely. Big Shot's Funeral, a comedic fable about the clash of cultures, isn't like anything...
...Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout performance, full of shifting moods and emotions. But Rosamund Kwan, as Lucy, the go-between for Tyler and YoYo, is flatter...