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...ruling should go against Hartmann, many observers believe he could be removed or forced to resign. And that might be important, because Hartmann has recently pushed hard to conduct trials as quickly as possible, although that haste was not evident during years when the accused were held in prison after their capture...
...aghast: this clown can't be taught anything. Yet Oggway believes that the accident that dropped Po out of the sky was no accident at all. The roly-poly panda is the one chosen to battle the evil master Tin Lung (Ian McShane), who'll be breaking out of prison any moment...
...movie will also remind more recent Hong Kong fans of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, the story of an oaf who becomes a hero against by battling a long-imprisoned supervillain. KFP shifts into high gear when its big baddie, Tai Lung, escapes from his prison dungeon, breaking chains, bones and the law of gravity with equal finesse. Many of the fights - Tai Lung vs. the Five Furies, or vs. Shifu or, finally, against a certain panda - are so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen...
...Today, Mohammed is out of Borg al-Arab, the Egyptian equivalent of Guantanamo Bay, but still being held in a local prison on criminal charges under Emergency Law (the organizers of the protest we attended, by contrast, were recently released). What are the prospects for getting him out anytime soon? Journalists don’t have international licensing or unions, and information doesn’t come with the guarantee that “no journalists were harmed.” How many local fixers have sacrificed themselves for a story, while their employers were cruising home on 747s...
12/13/07: The former owner of a Cambridge hair salon is convicted of raping a former Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison...