Word: branch
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...time when our country’s de facto cultural voice is some mongrel mishmash of Fox News and CNN. If only writer-director James Gray were more sensitive to these issues, then his film might seem less a propaganda co-written by the NYPD’s PR branch and the Department of Homeland Security, and more like the excellent crime thriller it might have been (and sort of is). Thankfully, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg bolster Gray’s average direction and his amateurish screenplay. Phoenix’s character, Bobby, runs a Brooklyn nightclub under...
...hand, conservative court members might bridle at anti-federalist infringement on states' rights to execute prisoners. On the other hand, the conservatives are firm believers in expanded presidential powers. The left, similarly, is torn between supporting American compliance with international law, but not wanting to affirm executive branch control over its application...
...security contractor accused of shooting two Iraqis in Baghdad on Tuesday was working indirectly for a branch of the U.S. government. According to the State Department, the company, Unity Resources Group - which is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates - was providing protection to RTI, a U.S. nonprofit organization under contract to work in Iraq for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The shooting occurred at 1:40 p.m. in the Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada. According to the Iraq interior ministry, two Iraqi Christian women were killed. The convoy had just finished dropping off an employee...
...Socialist Government denies it is directing the reinvigorated police activity, insisting that it is a law-enforcement action, not a politically motivated one. ""The Judicial branch acts independently and the Government does not tell the judges what to do", Jose Antonio Pastor, the Basque Socialist Party speaker at the Basque Parliament, told TIME. "[This operation] is not an instrumental action by the Government...
...memoir, Peeling the Onion, which was published in Germany last year and in the U.S. this summer, Grass revealed for the first time that, after joining the armed forces at age 16 in the fall of 1944, he was drafted into the SS, the fanatical branch of Adolf Hitler's army -although by the time he took up arms, the war was all but over. (He writes, credibly, that he never actually fired a shot.) Grass's memoir describes in detail the conditions he encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months...