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...both have a scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who came to international prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon (the actress Zia) switches her affection from her faithless husband to a condemned killer (Taiwanese star Chang...
...regime. The U.S. military decided to reopen the prison last August for all Iraqis being detained and renamed it the Baghdad Correctional Facility. But reminders of the prison's grim history were inescapable. From the ceiling of each 10-ft.-by-12-ft. cell still dangled a large hook, which had been used to hang inmates from their hands or feet. Waleed Sabih al-Delami, detained after soldiers found suspicious wires near his house, tells TIME the Americans picked up where Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint...
...thing is, attempted misconduct is still wrong, and Gonzales probably shouldn't get off the hook so easily. He's a member of the Texas bar and subject to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. One of those rules says, "a lawyer shall not engage in conduct constituting obstruction of justice." The rule is based on the American Bar Association model rules, which refer to "Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice". And since the Acting Attorney General - the arbiter of all things legal in the Administration - had already decided that the eavesdropping program as constituted was illegal, there...
...both their own and their partners’. Open access to sexual education can help overcome these taboos and help men learn how to give pleasure to their female partners (not to mention support to the other women in their lives). For both committed couples and casual hook-ups, it’s challenging to have satisfying sexual relations if one partner feels her needs aren’t being...
...global market for flavored packaged foods tops $1 trillion, and consumers spend hundreds of billions on scented cleaning and hygiene products. In the flavor-and-fragrance industry, the toughest battles are fought not behind the perfume counter but on grocery-store shelves. When whipping up a product meant to hook billions of taste buds and olfactory receptors, the biggest consumer-product corporations in the world don't gamble on hunches. That's where the million-dollar noses come...