Word: poisoner
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...courts crack down on abusers, and programs exist to help change violent behavior, victims will be less likely to take -- and less justified in taking -- the law into their own hands. And once the cycle of violence winds down in this generation, it is less likely to poison the next. That would be a family value worth fighting...
More American women -- rich and poor alike -- are injured by the men in their life than by car accidents, muggings and rape combined. Advocates and experts liken the effect over time to a slow-acting poison. "Most battered women aren't killing to protect themselves from being killed that very moment," observes Charles Ewing, a law professor at SUNY Buffalo. "What they're protecting themselves from is slow but certain destruction, psychologically and physically. There's no place in the law for that...
...matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom rat poison may be the best antidote. And for U.S. viewers, Match Factory is a splendid introduction to a world-class (no joke) filmmaker, with a wit as dry as kindling...
...Adam's Rib on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. Laws of Gravity on Thursday, Nov. 12at 8:55 p.m. Pepi, Luci, Bom on Thursday, Nov. 12at 9:40 p.m. Memoirs of a River on Thursday, Nov.12 at 7 p.m. The Panama Deception on Thursday,Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. Poison Ivy on Thursday, Nov. 12at 5:05 p.m. Simple Men and Hooray for Underdogopen on Friday...
When the war ended in 1988, Iraq was the strongest power in the Persian Gulf. Some State Department officials thought tilting back from Baghdad would be prudent. There was ample evidence of brutality by Saddam, including use of poison gas against Iranians during the war and on his own people in the Kurdish city of Halabja, where at least 5,000 civilians were killed. Iraq was also considered a regional bully...