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Metropolis is the story of a harmless, hapless, nameless young German immigrant, fresh off the boat in 1860-something, who has a knack for naively stumbling into complicated plots through no fault of his own. First he falls in with a violent Manhattan street gang whose members call themselves the Whyos and communicate with an elaborate, secret singing language (they are selected for their musical ability). Then he falls violently in love with a fetching Irish Whyo named Beanie, "a sassy girl gangster who sometimes wore trousers." Against his better judgment, our hero gets embroiled in the Whyos' various capers...
...John McCain and Chris Dodd and a chat with Bush at the annual St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House. Bush listened as the women vowed to find justice for the death of their brother Robert McCartney, murdered earlier this year in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by a gang the family says included members of the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Robert's fiancé Bridgeen Hagans made the trip with the sisters. "Justice will prevail," Bush told them, before repeating one of his favorite post-9/11 lines: "Out of evil can come great good...
...three days" if Col. Lindbergh could get him free that long. This new Capone offer supported a theory, held by even those closest to Col. Lindbergh, that the proper criminals got Col. Lindbergh's $50,000 and then proceeded to turn the baby over to another gang. This gang could use the child as an instrument for extorting further ransom. Or it might make a favorable impression on the nation's prosecutors by returning the child gratis. It might use the child as a hostage, returnable for the freedom of some potent hoodlum (the Senator Bingham theory...
...this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political opponents of the former regime. Spectators squatting on a termite mound lean forward as Ntirushwamaboko describes how he and a gang of others corralled and slaughtered a group of Tutsi near the house of his victim, a 29-year-old farmer named Gonzaga Twagiramungu. Among the dead was his victim's 1-year-old son. "I'm asking for forgiveness from all Rwandans and the government of Rwanda, but most importantly...
...succumbs to whispery-voiced, almost catatonic self-pity as he tries to relate to courtiers. Half of them are (as he is) contemplating suicide, while the rest are plotting desperate escapes. There has been some criticism of director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated film for humanizing Hitler and his gang, but that's nonsense. Because, of course, they were human. The world has since known dictators just as insane. And we can be sure their acolytes exhibited the same range of ugly behavior (denial, cynicism, narcissism) shown in this film. The inclusion of a few innocents and dissidents hardly brightens...