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While the new thriller Murder by Numbers is entertaining and full of suspense, it is too political. Starring Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a character too engineered to seem realistic, the movie is a crime thriller about two boys who believe they have engineered the perfect murder. And without the cutthroat Mayweather’s salient intuition prompting her to suspect the boys, they most surely would have escaped...
...ceiling, the film provides an unneeded and often distracting portrayal of Mayweather’s past—replete with an abusive husband that made her a cop hungry for revenge. These stories, however, do not seem especially relevant to the plot insofar as they detract from an interesting murder investigation...
SENTENCED. ROBERT TULLOCH, 18, and JAMES PARKER, 17, teenagers convicted of the brutal stabbing murder of Half and Susanne Zantop, husband-and-wife Dartmouth professors, in January 2001; to life in prison and 25 years to life, respectively; in North Haverhill, N.H. Prosecutors said the killing was part of a scheme engineered by Tulloch to steal $10,000 they needed in order to travel to Australia...
...character of Jane McNeil (Stephanie Dorvil), a black sharecropper who suddenly appears on Brett’s plantation and turns out to be his daughter, a fact she springs on him as he tries to seduce her. Refusing to hide her secret, Jane incites Brett to strangle her, a murder he then pins on Lincoln after he is accused of rape...
...consists of the claim that whereas the attacks against the World Trade Center have no rationally defensible justification, the suicide bombings, although reaching the deepest levels of barbarism and cruelty, at least are directed towards achieving a just goal—an independent Palestinian state. But when murder of innocents is the means, the ends become meaningless and unimportant. Every terrorist, whether from Hamas, al Qaeda, the IRA, or any other such organization, thinks that his ends justify his means. As a practical as well as a moral matter, therefore, it is unacceptable to distinguish terrorists from one another based...