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...mind sad endings," Chow notes in the film's narration. "The male lead could change, as long as she was the leading lady." Chow's cast of sexual co-stars changes almost nightly. His hotel-room bedsprings squeal like a medieval torture device in the unwilling ears of his next-door neighbor...
...stake. Says Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch and a former federal prosecutor: "Proponents of torture always cite the ticking-bomb scenario. The problem is that the situation is infinitely elastic. You start by applying it to a terrorist suspect, and soon you're applying it to his next-door neighbor who perhaps might know something." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington; Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem; Joseph Szczesny/Detroit; and Julie Rawe and Claudia Wallis/New York
...getter, laundress, housecleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman. If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... Spotted through her day are blessed moments of relief or dark thoughts of escape...
William L. Aronson ’04, Fonseca’s next-door neighbor in Winthrop J-entryway, introduced a performance of one of Fonseca’s favorite musical pieces, the “Prelude in C-minor” from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Fonseca often requested that Aronson play Bach’s piece...
...many do you throw back?" Ten percent. "And the rest we're locking up?" We've locked up probably over 4,000, sir. "Are you getting any decent intelligence?" Sometimes, but a commander always wants more. "How much of the information you get is someone getting even with their next-door neighbors?" About 10%. "How many Americans or coalition have been killed in the last three months in your area?" About 20. "And the Iraqi security forces?" Less than that. "Do you feel we're effectively using the reward money to track down the remaining senior people...