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...eponymous theme, is a masterpiece, and the Boston Ballet Company rises to the challenge of presenting it as such.“Emeralds,” set to Gabriel Faure’s “Pelleas et Melisande and Shylock,” employs the vocabulary of French classical ballet. The story of Pelleas et Melisande is a mysterious tale evoking the origins of the French national sensibility. It features pastoral and water imagery which is reflected in the fluid, symmetrical movement of the dancers, as well as the effective costume and design choices. The curtain is drawn...
William Friedkin doesn’t know how he survived the making of “The French Connection,” his 1971 police-procedural classic.As the Oscar-winning director tells it, his appearance some 35 years later at the Harvard Film Archive’s two-week retrospective of his work can only be explained by miracle. “It was the Movie God again,” he said. Only some sort of cinematic deity could’ve saved him, he says, from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous...
...convictions against five former detainees who had been handed over to France in 2007 and then tried and jailed on terrorism-related charges. The court ruled that the men had been convicted on the basis of intelligence gathered during interrogations at Gitmo - and that such intelligence failed to meet French standards for permissible evidence. The court said there was no other proof that the men had conspired to commit terrorist acts...
...both ways, says Vijay Padmanabhan, a visiting professor at the Cardozo School of Law and former counsel to the State Department on detainee issues. On one hand, it suggests that releasing dangerous people from Gitmo "poses some threat they could return to terrorist activity." On the other hand, the French court demonstrated that "other countries are unable to use evidence procured in Guantánamo, which may hamper, not help, our ability to detain people in the long run." Padmanabhan believes that "ultimately, the big picture here is Guantánamo is an unsustainable model...
...Nonetheless, the French court's judgment points to a key difficulty the Obama Administration will face as it wrestles with how to deal with Gitmo's 245 remaining detainees. The plan is to try the hard-core terrorists in federal courts, but the Bush Administration's authorization of legally questionable interrogation techniques at the prison now gives many detainees a get-out-of-jail card. "Anytime you try to use criminal courts to prosecute, there's a good chance they're going to be acquitted," says Padmanabhan...