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...increasingly at risk of radicalization if the situation does not change. Independent research from the Center of Immigration Studies laments the likelihood of disadvantaged Muslims becoming involved with organized crime groups, and the possibility that they will be jailed and exposed to religious radicals during their time in prison...
...lucky bounce when producer Mark Hellinger hired him to direct Brute Force, and the director rose to the challenge with one of the boldest, tautest films of the postwar crime cycle. Finally, he was in the gnarled noir territory that suited him. The story of a vicious prison guard (Hume Cronyn) and the angry cons under his boot, Brute Force is a sharp evocation of unrest in a totalitarian state. It also set up motifs Dassin would keep returning to. Here, as in Rififi, the lead character (Burt Lancaster) is a criminal who has our sympathy...
...further proof that a five-year-old memo continues to haunt the U.S. and Iraq, there's next month's release of Errol Morris' documentary Standard Operating Procedure. Without mentioning Yoo specifically, the film shows some of his memo's darkest consequences: the systematic abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison...
...Thursday, at an airbase in Jacksonville, Fla., McCain completed the thought by telling the crowd what he had learned in his five years as a prisoner of war, where he was tortured so badly that he signed a false confession and later contemplated suicide. "I once thought I was man enough for almost any confrontation. In prison, I discovered I was not," he said. "But when I had reached the limit of my endurance, the men I had the honor of serving with picked me up, set me right, and sent me back into the fight...
...McCain's redemption tale conveniently charts a clear course from a strip club in Pensacola to a North Vietnamese prison to the steps of the White House. He was saved in captivity, he says, by his fellow soldiers, and their shared sense of common cause. "For me that cause has long been our country," he said in Meridian. To drive home the point, the sides of his motor coaches were laminated with the words, "Service to America...