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Eventually Yunis, after enduring a ritual beating, is imprisoned (along with his siblings) in Camp Ganci, a satellite of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Ganci houses prisoners who have no intelligence value - it seems to be simply a place to file and forget American mistakes - and its population mainly sits...
Conrad Black, the press baron accused of looting his Hollinger International media empire, began his current trial in Chicago with at least one thought on his mind. "The prosecutors will soon, finally, have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of completely innocent people," he wrote recently. "They will...
There's psychology at work here too. Lawrence Solan, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and an expert in linguistics and the law, explains that we can process an abstract word like doubt only by contrasting two mental images. In a criminal case, the first image would be the prosecutor...
What's more, says Solan, we tend to make sense of things by fitting them into stereotypical models, or "prototypes." We have prototypes for the guilty as well as the innocent. In practice, this means a defendant who "looks more guilty than innocent may be convicted, whether or not the...
Would you call this movie an allegory? Allegory sounds too much like message film. To paraphrase [Hollywood legend] Samuel Goldwyn: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." It's a fantasy. But I've included some ideas that are worth considering. The whole thesis about losing behavioral...