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SENTENCED. James Barker, 23, U.S. Army specialist; to 90 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to participating in the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl, her younger sister and her parents last March in the village of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad; in Fort Campbell, Ky. Asked why he did it, Barker, who cut a deal to avoid the death penalty and agreed to testify against his four alleged co-conspirators, said, "I hated Iraqis ... They can smile at you, then shoot you in your face without even thinking about...
...backstory and instead focus on the extraordinary depths of his characters.The only actor who fulfills the promise of the writing is Lage as Howie, who gives us a husband who is fundamentally understanding, but too tired to keep laboring at his fractured marriage. Even when Becca’s sister Izzy (Geneva Carr) questions Howie about what appears to be an affair, we manage to identify with the frustration that led him there, even as we are disgusted by his ineffective attempt to deny it.Carr as Izzy and Anderman as Nat come off with similar degrees of blandness, which...
...would be to fail to confront the tenets of my religion which repel me. But even sadder than those who are compelled to wear the hijab by social or cultural pressure are those who are not permitted to decide for themselves at all. I have a veiled friend whose sister decided to wear the hijab at the age of five to emulate her older sister, and has not removed the scarf ever since. The little girl’s resolve is certainly remarkable, but her motivation, given her immaturity, is still troubling. What sexuality does a five-year-old have...
...Sweet Escape,” Stefani manages to transform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” into an adults-only show. The mini-musical opens with the camera panning up a lamb-dotted, astro-turfed hill that settles on Sister Stefani, dressed in nun garb and yodeling the opening lines from Julie Andrews’ famous marionette tune. The second act puts “My Favorite Things” to shame with a noticeably radiant bedtime Gwen instructing eager, Aryanized Asian kids on the finer points of getting wound...
...going to get a tattoo the reasoning would be that I want it to be a part of my body,” she wrote in an e-mail. But some customers are encouraged by the new ink; Morgan L. Haven-Tietze ’08 and her younger sister will wait until it’s available to get matching shamrocks. “The new ink makes the decision more reversible, so if I ever decide I don’t want the design or the stigma, I can remove the tattoo,” she wrote...