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...ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding the law of the land. "In our intelligence work we never used methods that led to serious crimes, terror or murder," said one of the authors, Gotthold Schramm, at a press conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers. Germany was one of the first countries to provide public access to its communist-era secret police files - an estimated 6 million were made available in 1992. But last...
...question you have to ask is, Why doesn't he give it up? It's Thursday morning, and Brown, mayor of Oakland, is standing in incandescent sunshine outside the renovated Sears store he calls home. Not much is going smoothly this morning: the city had its 50th murder the night before, adding to a huge spike above 2005; his opponent in the race for California attorney general has just called him soft on crime; one of the two charter schools he helped start is in need of cash; and now Fox television wants him to go on camera...
...some superficial bustle, but essentially it's a course in speculative religious and art history. Somebody talks, the others listen. Those lectures give most of the actors little to do. Ian McKellen, as a crotchety charmer, fares best, because he does most of the talking. Bettany, finding poignancy in murder and masochism, comes in second...
...thrown in jail for writing a provocative editorial about a government contract, his biggest concern is not his cause or his safety, but discovering that his cellmate was his new girlfriend's old flame. In A Refugee, a young woman moves from the countryside to the capital after Maoists murder her husband. That violent act underpins the story. "It was hard to believe that this country was becoming a place where people killed each other over differences in ideas about how to govern it," ponders Pitamber, a man who gives shelter to the widow. But her influence on Pitamber...
...light touches to leaven the melodrama, like the super-noisy kisses the women exchange - sometimes two, sometimes three, sometimes five, depending on how close they feel to the kissee. When Sole asks her niece Paula, "What's wrong with you?" (not knowing the girl has just been forced into murder), she shrugs and replies, "I'm at a difficult age." But the real epiphanies are not comic. Cruz, in a fortissimo performance, sings (lip-synchs, actually) the flamenco song "Volver" with a passion that expresses Raimunda's indomitable peasant will. And in a lovely moment, on the first night Irene...