Word: stickfuls
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...sunny to cool and breezy; now the skies are as gray as the palette in an Eastern European minidrama. The change went unnoticed by many festivalgoers, because they're gone; just one week of this 12-day bash is enough for them. Still, there are enough lifers who stick it out - for Cannes is a storyline that's not resolved until the closing ceremonies on Sunday, when the Palme d'Or and other prizes will be announced by Stephen Frears, the Brit director of The Queen and president of this year's Jury...
...fair. Most people don't even notice DRM--who puts their music on five different computers anyway?--but there's something annoyingly unfair about FairPlay even in the abstract. You paid for the music. Who is Apple to tell you where you can and can't stick...
...reared in a code of strength and guts, yet now he speaks of being "spooked by the sea." His lawsuit claims he was so traumatized by the sinking that he could not return to fishing and was left unemployed. "They used to say the boats were made of stick and the men were made of steel," he says. "That's not how it is anymore. Men aren't as tough as they used to be. But there needs to be recourse. That's why we have laws and courts...
...house, tells TIME the Americans picked up where Saddam left off. He says he was suspended from such a hook three times during his five-month stint in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib. His feet were tied, and his arms were bound behind his back. "They would take a stick and put it through the rope and pull me off the ground," he says. While he was bound and suspended, a military translator stood by him, shouting: "You are a terrorist! You are a terrorist!" But no real questioning took place...
...prison system that included beatings, humiliation and soldiers having sex with female detainees. At the Baghdad airport holding pen, he laughed at interrogators who asked if he knew which terrorists were exploding bombs. When he failed to provide information, they beat him with a cable or a riot stick on the back of the legs. He saw U.S. soldiers strip the clothes off a fellow inmate and put their feet on his head, making him lie naked on the ground for hours. Mohammed claimed that prisoners, angered by the death of an old man forced to lie on his face...