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...have declined to be identified for security reasons. The prosecution is seeking to prove that Saddam and his co-defendants ordered the killing of 143 townspeople, mainly Shi'ites, in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt on the former President in 1982. In court, the prosecutors, like prosecutors anywhere, prod witnesses to testify against the defendants...
...dialogue is time-filling conversation you might hear anywhere (but in a Hollywood movie). The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode. The "actors" bring an authenticity to this strip-mall, strip-mined area. Ashley is a student, Wilkins a beauty-salon stylist, and Doebereiner the manager of the Parkersburg, W.Va., Kentucky Fried Chicken. All are good, but Doebereiner's a real find. With eyes as blue as those her Martha presses into plastic doll faces, she brings a fresh look to a decent person who's addicted...
...searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of a placebo laced with cyanide...
Despite his L.A. stardom and Denzel Washington looks, Bush has no Hollywood act. When U.S.C. players started rapping before a game to keep things loose, they had to prod Bush to join in. He did, briefly, and sat right back down. Though Bush may at times appear aloof, friends say he's just focused. "A bomb could blow up next to him," says Donnie Van Hook, Bush's high school coach, "and he wouldn't even know...
...departmental courses.Some professors expressed reservations about the expansive freedom the proposed curriculum gives students. Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman said that though he supported a distribution requirement, the new system would not force less adventurous students to explore other disciplines.“We want to gently prod these students to explore more widely,” he said. “Three courses in three areas will not encourage exploration.”Feldman proposed as an alternative to the report that students be required to take one course in each of nine areas that would closely...