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...offender, whose name has been withheld as is the custom in British cases involving minors, appeared in court Wednesday after admitting to a catalogue of offences, including taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, failing to surrender to custody and possession of cannabis. Police also presented evidence that the teenager had written abusive comments on the site about the local police...
...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...story can resume,” writes Robbie Turner, a British soldier fighting in World War II, to Cecilia Tallis, his beloved. He refers to their love story, which both the war and Cecilia’s sister, Briony, interrupt. Director Joe Wright adopts a similar philosophy by choosing Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel “Atonement” for film adaptation: The story can resume—even if the change in medium makes it lose some of its power. The film stays close to the novel that inspired it, as in Wright?...
...lend themselves well to Wright’s eye for lush cinematography and emotional bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels to the big screen. While the worse of these ended up being tedious opulent excess, the best, like 1992’s “Howard’s End” or 1985’s “A Room with a View,” captured...
...been alive and well. Anne Darwin, who abruptly decamped for Panama six weeks ago as police were quietly investigating suspicious activity surrounding the Darwins' finances, conceded that a photograph taken of the couple in Panama City was authentic. That July 2006 snapshot was unearthed by The Daily Mirror, a British newspaper, which pulled it from the web site of a company that assists foreigners relocating to Panama to find housing. "I guess that picture answers a lot of questions," she told the paper. "Yes, that's my husband...