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Surprisingly, the defendants were allowed to cross-examine and call witnesses, but that did not affect the verdict. Even though the testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses was laughably unreliable, the alleged slave ringleaders were convicted and burned alive at the stake. The white mastermind, Hughson, was hanged. In terms of the fairness of the proceedings, the trials resembled less “Law and Order” than “Judge Judy...
...respected animators, like Andreas Deja (who drew the title characters in Hercules and Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Eric Goldberg (mastermind of the Genie in Aladdin), resisted making the switch to CG. And Keane, when he sat down at a computer, was soon aware of its downside. "It tempts you with the easy choices. It says, 'You designed half that face. Push this button, we'll duplicate it, and the job's done. You've got symmetry--perfect!' But the key to beauty is strangeness, asymmetry...
...sweet, even vaguely plausible, scheme. The clones are kept in a nice white bunker, their health is closely monitored, all their needs--up to the mental age of 15--are provided for, and sex is not an issue since the system's mastermind, Merrick (Sean Bean), has simply eliminated that messy urge. He feeds them on two myths. One is that they are the only survivors of a vast "contamination" that has wiped out the rest of human life. The other is that there's a paradisical, uncontaminated island on which you can win residence by giving birth or through...
...June 2004 police arrested Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, a.k.a. Mohamed the Egyptian, right, in Milan. Ahmed had made calls to radical contacts elsewhere in Europe, boasting he was the mastermind of the Madrid strikes...
...Allah." In fact, the decision will be made by a field commander of al-Zarqawi's group. Marwan hopes he will be chosen for a high-profile hit, the dramatic, headline-grabbing kind that al-Zarqawi is said to direct personally. Although Marwan has never met the terrorist mastermind, he reveres him as a great Islamic hero...