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...film introduces wives and kids for the sole purpose of killing them off and turning a loving husband into a revenge machine. You got the same deal in this summer's Death Race, where the Jason Statham character also loses his wife and baby, and endures the same frustrating near-miss of spotting the killer. But Statham channeled his mourning into a manly, stoic rage. Wahlberg's Max mostly broods; he's stolid, anomic, the walking (or, at the beginning and end of the film, swimming) dead...
...occasioned by the punitive Treaty of Versailles. Memories of the war's bitter fighting and vengeful conclusion had rendered the international atmosphere toxic, making a mockery out of the one transnational institution to have emerged from the conflict, the League of Nations. Adding to those abundant ills was the near religious faith in the sacred orthodoxies of laissez-faire and the gold standard--the economic equivalents of the Nicene Creed...
...this puts Obama-supporting Muslims in a tight spot. As the election draws near, many have adopted a “wait-and-see” policy: They hold off on doing anything that might provide more fuel for his detractors, yet secretly hope for his acknowledgement. “A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim,” admitted Rep. Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, in July...
...believers. But Burleigh keeps her balance, and her humor, as she sifts - far more diligently than many archaeologists - through the evidence. She also has unprecedented access to all the major players in the James ossuary debate: dogged police detectives, sharp-witted antiquarians, Bible-besotted collectors and suspected forgers of near genius...
...original Italian warrant for her apprehension that had been reactivated in legal databases. To many in France - where sympathy with reformed leftist radicals is widespread - the right's welching of the Mitterrand amnesty left Petrella unfairly hanging out to dry. Some also claim a July-dated letter she wrote near death expressing regret to her victims - and published by the daily Le Monde Wednesday night - indicates violent criminals can be reformed through forgiveness after all. But to victims of leftist terror in Italy, it was a case of justice proffered and then dashed...