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...Political Imprisonment and Torture was commissioned in 2003 to create the most comprehensive list possible of those who were imprisoned and tortured for political reasons during the military dictatorship from September 1973 to March 1990. This mandate was vastly different from that of the first Chilean truth commission, The Rettig Report of 1991, which enumerated solely those who had been disappeared or murdered...
...Yale spokeswoman, Janet Rettig Emanuel, declined to comment specifically on either of the d4T licensing agreements...
...seniors, including all five starters. One of those, Karen Force, a two-time All-Ivy selection and one of the most prolific scorers in Cornell history, will return as an assistant coach. Junior captains Sarah Brown and Hillary Seidel will man the Big Red backcourt, and fellow captain Brittani Rettig will anchor the post. Unfortunately for Cornell, the captains can claim only one career start among them. And with a roster featuring zero seniors and six newcomers, headaches should come easy in Ithaca...
...when I saw the movie in 1953; what could a kid know? This one thought, and thinks, that "Dr. T." is a bold and spooky parable of persecution and revolution. What's bold? Well, for a start, the conception of the main characters. Except for young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig, who a few years later became Lassie's best friend on TV), they are weak or venal. Dr. Terwilliker (the sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized...
...perky "Get-Together Weather"; a mock school song for Terwilliker Academy; an elevator song as a guard takes the prisoners to the dungeon and itemizes the evils, floor by descending floor, like a department-store employee. There's also an aching ballad - "Because We're Kids," performed by Rettig - that encapsulates, like no other song I know, the frustration of the young at the power that grownups capriciously wield over them...