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...complex legal process the Khmer Rouge tribunal has become since it was proposed more than a decade ago. Negotiations between the Cambodian government and the U.N. to establish the hybrid court, which includes national and international judges and elements of international and domestic law, took years to hammer out, and on more than one occasion had many believing that the tribunal would never take place. Recent research conducted by the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, found that of 1,000 Cambodians interviewed, fewer than one in 10 knew that five regime suspects have been awaiting trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cambodia, Pol Pot's Regime on Trial at Last | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...minute later with senior Nick Coskren’s team-leading seventh goal. Senior Steve Rolecek launched a shot from the right faceoff circle after co-captain Jimmy Fraser slid him the puck. Bessette got in front of Rolecek’s attempt, but Coskren was there to hammer home the rebound to boost Harvard to a 2-0 lead.Although Colgate outshot the Crimson 12-10 in the first frame, Harvard kept the Raiders out of its defensive zone for the majority of the period, with blueliners Alex Biega and co-captain Brian McCafferty holding Colgate in the neutral zone.The...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huxley Scores Game-Winner on Power Play to Send Raiders Packing | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...would be it. It leans too heavily on this time-honored protest model, one summed up by Crash’s director, Paul Haggis, when he said in his 2005 Oscar acceptance speech that, “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani | Title: An Area of Darkness | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

...best opportunity for Obama to broker a compromise will probably be during negotiations between the House and the Senate to hammer out a single piece of legislation. But on Thursday, Gibbs declined to commit Obama to direct involvement in those negotiations. "I don't think I would close the door in any way that he'll get involved," Gibbs said instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stimulus Bill's Bumpy Ride | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...Minn., but the camera is too distracted by its intent to build a case against Lucy (Zellweger) to ever show us precisely what. Instead, director Jonas Elmer keeps our eyes fixed at the level of supercilious Lucy's excruciatingly high heels as she minces around the factory, to hammer home the fact that she's a fish out of water. Jars of something brown go by occasionally, but it's the people who make the brown stuff who matter. And they are all Real Americans, the salt of the earth, with assorted Fargo-style accents. Mainstream moviemaking seems incapable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New in Town, But Same Old Stories | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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