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...religion, “Deliver Us From Evil”—a documentary about the Catholic Church’s lengthy history with pedophilia and subsequent cover-ups— turns a more realistic lens on similar subject matter. Written and directed by Amy Berg, a young journalist who said she felt compelled to make the film after Boston’s Cardinal Law scandal broke in 2002, “Deliver Us” manages to maintain its journalistic integrity while conveying the obviously emotional stories of children abused by priests and abandoned by the Church...
...Fire, speculates that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was "the man who may have actually killed Pearl or at least participated in his butchery." According to Musharraf, "When we later arrested and interrogated him, he admitted his participation." A new HBO documentary, The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl, leaves the question unresolved; it focuses on the intersecting lives of Pearl and Sheik, the man convicted of the crime, but also cites unnamed U.S. and Pakistani officials who blame Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the murder...
...Nature is weeping in rain when they bury an honest person," sighed a middle-aged, ordinary-looking woman in the crowd. However banal, her words reflected the common mood. The grief for a journalist murdered for speaking the truth about war crimes in Russia had brought together a range of people who in past decades would never have voluntarily found themselves in the same company...
...Also in attendance were Politkovskaya's journalist colleagues, many of them long unemployed since their once-independent TV stations and publications were closed or taken over by Kremlin loyalists...
...rare honesty, courage and popularity to jolt the people out of complacency - and to the realization that there are too few like Politkovskaya left in their midst. But few of the embattled though sizable crowd gathered in the chilly rain to pay their last respects to a heroic journalist would have expected that 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they would have occasion to once again feel like dissidents in the face of an all-powerful state...