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...ordered my bodyguards to take over because I got tired of beating them myself.' KIM SEUNG YOUN, one of South Korea's wealthiest businessmen, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting and assaulting Seoul karaoke-bar workers who had fought with his son, a student at Yale...
...SEUNG-YOUN, one of South Korea's wealthiest businessmen, who was sentenced to 11/2 years in prison for abducting and assaulting Seoul karaoke-bar workers who had fought with his son, a student at Yale...
Ever since March, when Libby was convicted for lying about his role in exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, a lot of people have wondered whether the President would step in to keep him from going to prison. On the one hand, Bush has never been a man inclined to spare people from prison time or execution. As Governor of Texas, he issued only a small fraction of the pardons offered by his predecessors from either party. And as President, his Justice Department has consistently pushed for tough sentences...
...heart, to say nothing of the heart of Libby's former boss Dick Cheney, who was known to feel that the conviction of his former chief of staff was an injustice in itself. So Bush decided on a measured approach to mercy: commute Libby's 30-month prison sentence without reversing his conviction or lifting the $250,000 fine...
...That's not to say that the new film, which stars Christian Bale as Dengler and Steve Zahn as the man who joins him in escape, is anything less than authentic and austere in its evocations of the primitive cruelties these men endured both in prison and during their escape. It has the ability to show us, in grim detail, things that Dengler, in the previous film, could only haltingly allude to. Yet, in so doing, it shifts our perspective. Inevitably, we start thinking about other POW escape movies and judging this one by their fictionally enhanced standards. Dengler becomes...