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...characters are similarly one-dimensional, with no motivations or desires other than those necessary to keep the film moving: detectives want to solve the case, psychopaths want to kill, and greedy executives (both those within the film and the real executives responsible for its creation) want to make money. The exception is Kramer [an executive?], whose predictable philosophy of appreciation of life receives almost all of the screen time not devoted to torture. Conveniently, his character provides an excuse for the flatness of those of his proteges, whose actions are motivated only by the fascism of Kramer?...

Author: By Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saw VI | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...because he had distant ethnic roots in the country, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors say he was motivated by deep-rooted racism. "He stabbed [the couple] out of pure hatred against non-Europeans and Muslims. He wanted to kill them," prosecutor Frank Heinrich told the court Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Headscarf Martyr': Trial of the Century for Muslims | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...down to the cities to kill the scumbags." - A stanza of one of his poems about Sarajevo. (Independent, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Harvard held a 42-36 kill advantage as well as 6-1 lead in blocks for the match. The Bears out-dug the Crimson slightly...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Before Getting Swept | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...waterways, "the potential for more outbreaks is still there," warns Tayag. Last week the Philippine health authorities began distributing the antibiotic doxycycline in flooded communities, a procedure recommended by the WHO. Plans are now being readied for a large-scale spraying of saltwater into still-flooded areas to kill the leptospirosis bacterium, which only lives in freshwater. The timing to ask for help from the global health authorities - as well as other decisions such as the distributing of antibiotics and the saltwater spraying - were "judgment" calls, says Tayag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manila, After the Floods, Battles 'Rat Fever' | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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