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It’s the classic murder tale: husband discovers wife is cheating, husband murders wife, husband walks away from trial a free man. O.J. Simpson, anyone? Director Gregory Hoblit (“NYPD Blue,” “L.A. Law”) brings his crime and courtroom expertise to the big screen with “Fracture.” Though the movie’s promotional posters (Anthony Hopkins smiling sinisterly under the words “I shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic...
...enough to be shielded by the motherly Harvard bubble. It makes car horns louder, brakes less effective, and everyone with a driver’s license forget chapters one through six of the Massachusetts Driver’s Manual. Its final symptom: an inexplicable and hell-bent desire to murder trepidatious pedestrians...
...return to the sectarian bloodshed that destroyed the country between 1975 and 1990. The January riot that left several people dead and led to a nighttime curfew served as a wake-up call to Lebanese politicians of the heated emotions in their respective communities. This week's double murder even led to an unexpected reconciliatory phone call between Nasrallah and Jumblatt, who have been at loggerheads for months. An encouraging sign perhaps, but it may have come too late to soothe the seething passions on the streets...
...brutal slaying of two young Sunni Muslims in what appears to have been an act of tribal revenge by a Shi'ite clan has reminded Lebanon of the deadly passions that can be unleashed by the bitter public feuds of their politicians. The kidnapping, torture and murder of Ziad Ghandour, 12, and Ziad Qabalan, 25, is the latest act of sectarian violence that has left many fearful for the future, even as Lebanon's chastened political leaders scramble to unite in condemning the killings...
...Ghandour and Qabalan had gone missing on Monday, their abandoned car found later in the suburb of Shiyeh. Their disappearance - an ominous echo of the kidnappings and murders of the 1975-1990 civil war - triggered a massive police manhunt. The Ghandour and Qabalan families are both connected to the political party of Walid Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze community and arch-foe of the militant Shi'ite Hizballah. And Lebanese long accustomed to a tradition of clan blood feuds immediately drew attention to the grievance of the Shamas family, a tough Shi'ite clan originally from a village...