Word: henkin
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...business, which is to get Jack and Mona wrestling around together. Some blood is spilled on these occasions, so a sex- and-violence equivalency is established. There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written...
...safety thing to know you're accepted," says Scott N. Henkin '94. "But to get a full education out of business school you really need to have a job first...
Advocates of presidential authority note a similarity between the present situation and one in 1950, when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to the defense of South Korea in compliance with a United Nations Security Council resolution. But Columbia Law School's Louis Henkin notes that "Congress immediately ratified and acquiesced in the action." Moreover, he says, "we have no case where the President went to war when Congress told...