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...executive producer John Leguizamo was going to star until he became squeamish about Pinero's enthusiasm for teenage boys. Bratt was tapped as a replacement after the producers caught his performance as a streetwise muralist in the barely released 1997 drama Follow Me Home. "When you look at Miguel's eyes and you look at Ben's eyes," says Ichaso, "there's something enchanting and devilish." The son of a Peruvian mother and a Caucasian father, Bratt says he was drawn to Pinero's "sense of marginalization. He wrote about the most raw, gritty, ugly things that exist in society...
...Call 'em squeamish if you like, but America's European partners in the war on terrorism are increasingly alarmed over those Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. All across the continent newspapers challenged the U.S. view that the captives fall outside of the Geneva Convention. Britain's Guardian contests the U.S. contention that the men are "unlawful combatants" with a careful reading of the Geneva Convention. And the point is echoed by Richard Goldstone, the respected international jurist and former chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal. "Either they're prisoners of war, in which case they are entitled...
...Organ donation can be a squeamish topic even for doctors, says Dr. Brody. Current law actually allows the harvesting of organs from people carrying donor cards, even over familial objections. It?s just that very few doctors have the stomach to override the wishes of a grieving family. (The HHS committee also suggested allowing organs to be harvested unless families actively prohibit...
...queen in a rock band? The plotline of Spinning Gasing, the best Malaysian movie to come along in decades. It's a film that strums all the most jazzed-up chords of contemporary Malaysian society?including interracial and homosexual love?which prompted a yearlong battle with Kuala Lumpur's squeamish censors, who ended up taking a parang to the director's cut. Even so, reviews have been glowing, theaters are packed and screens are finally filled with a slice of modern Malaysian life as it really...
...homegrown maniac, not a foreign terrorist. So far, little evidence suggests that the Sept. 11 atrocities were hatched in Baghdad. Sources say the British have insisted loudly that they see no intelligence to link the hijackings to Iraq. That is significant. The British (unlike, say, the French) are not squeamish about Iraq; they have been helping the U.S. bomb it for a decade. Tony Blair's government has nothing to gain from sucking up to Saddam; he's always going to hate the British...