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...care who he must serve to obtain those boons. By analogy, Goya's Ghosts has much to say, largely through this character, about such current issues as torture, terror and the fact that some people can profit hugely by making up ideological justifications for the anarchy they loose upon the world. If you find yourself thinking about, say, Abu Ghraib while you're watching this movie, that's OK with Forman and Carriere...
...more sinister reason. Events have shown that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not Vice President Dick Cheney, leaked the undercover identity of Valerie Plame. If Cheney was innocent the entire time, why did Libby have to lie to protect him? Could something even more damaging emerge upon further investigation? With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. With a pardon, he could not. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers. Stephen H. Weentland, HOUSTON...
...India may have aired Sex and the City on TV and celebrated Cosmo girls on the newsstand, but it remains a distinctly unfriendly place for anyone who wants to live alone, particularly a woman. Single women making their way in the world are frowned upon in India's traditionally conservative society, and landlords often refuse to rent to them...
...Vaffanculo Day" to organize a protest against the sclerotic political establishment. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lets vulgar expressions slip out in public about twice a year. Still, with Italy's deep Catholic roots, profanity that takes God's or Christ's name in vain is widely frowned upon, and has cost several public figures their jobs...
...because Japan depends heavily upon nuclear power for electricity, it's unlikely much can or will be changed. "Building a reasonably quake-resistant plant is way too costly to be truly realistic," says Hiroyuki Nagasawa, a management-systems professor at Osaka Prefecture University. "Nothing short of reevaluating our energy policy will change the current situation, but we have much bigger political powers working to keep the plants running." The country has been spared a quake-related nuclear calamity so far. Citizens can only hope their luck holds...