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Professor of Criminal Justice Richard Parker suggested that torture of national enemies may be ethically justifiable in certain situations in a debate with the director of a national human rights organization at Harvard Law School yesterday evening...
...LIFE OF DAVID GALE. Kevin Spacey stars as Professor David Gale, an anti-death penalty crusader accused of murdering a fellow activist (Laura Linney) in this issue movie from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...
...11th grade and began living on the streets at 20. She smoked so much methamphetamine that her teeth rotted. The county took away two of her sons and placed them in foster care. Finally, in 1999 Sangermano entered drug treatment and then the home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures. She also enrolled her youngest son in preschool and signed up for a welfare-to-work program. Today Sangermano lives with her son in a two-bedroom apartment, works part-time and is taking...
Jordan nods and smiles, then asks her if she enjoyed the Pudding festivities, which she says she did. Emily confesses that she loved when Sarah Jessica Parker was in town for last year’s Roast, leading the pair to bond over their mutual fondness of “Sex and the City...
...culminating in American Beauty (1999), the critical reception for his last few movies was mixed; Gale, which deals with the death penalty in the U.S., is getting positive buzz. "I've always believed good politics makes bad theater," says Spacey. "I wanted to do it because of [director Alan] Parker. Whenever he has a social injustice or political issue at the center of a film, he manages to make that stuff hide and make the film about people and emotions, so the politics becomes almost subversive. And maybe in a drama, people will walk out of a movie like this...