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...this were a standard-issue parody, the Brit clods and U.S. dolts would by the end blunder their way to an improbable victory. But true satire says that the human condition is weak, venal and vulnerable, and we all deserve to blow. The bang that ended the movies, definitive political satire,Dr. Strangelove, wasn't fireworks but the end of the world. In the Loop sidesteps the happy ending, but sitting through it is a hoot: cruel people making funny cracks about life-and-death issues. You'll feel smarter just getting in synch with its hurtful, healing sense...
...when Gates had called on Crowley, the officer who had arrested him, to "beg my forgiveness." Gates, who had also publicly flirted with the idea of filing a lawsuit against police over the encounter, said in a television interview on Tuesday that "this [incident] has just to do with human relations between a man who did something terribly wrong and then lied about...
...call him racist, you can say anything you might feel like saying about his mother. He has taken an oath to listen to all of that and ignore it. That is the real teachable moment here: cops are paid to be professionals, but even the best of them are human and can make stupid mistakes...
...military ruler had appointed as Chief Justice, was the judge's enthusiasm for harrying the government with rulings that were popular with the public. Chaudhry had burnished his reputation by striking down the planned privatization of a steel mill and hearing petitions raised by the relatives of Pakistanis that human rights groups allege are being held in secret custody as terror suspects. When Chaudhry refused to yield to Musharraf's demand that he resign, the country's lawyers took to the streets in his support...
...region. On July 5 several hundred Uighurs went on a rampage in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi. The violence left 197 people dead, most of them members of China's majority Han ethnic group. The Chinese government has placed the blame on Reibya Kadeer, an outspoken Uighur businesswoman and human rights activist who spent nearly six years in a Chinese jail and now lives in exile in the U.S. (See pictures of the race riots in China's far west...