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Martin was thinking too small. The current recipe, cooked up in last year's Death Race and this week's Law Abiding Citizen, is to have some malefactor slaughter the leading character's wife and child - the love of his life and his hope for the future - as he watches helplessly. After that, any transgression, including wholesale murder, is understandable. In real life, good men may try to gulp down the black bile of their devastation and move on. They would answer Bernard Shaw's question to the 1988 Democratic candidate for President - "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped...
...Dallas was another thing altogether—Dallas is Dallas, and there is no way around it.” He continues: “He was the first coach of Harvard Debate for many years not to have been a Harvard debater (he went to Georgetown, then Harvard Law). When I first met him in the mid-1970s, he was partial to wearing one-piece pastel jumpsuits and had light orange hair down to his knees. Incongruously, when he spoke it was in one of the most pronounced West Texas drawls ever heard (he comes from Impact, Texas, outside...
...Lahore attack marks the fifth dramatic assault by the Pakistani Taliban in just 10 days, and it involved teams of well-trained fighters storming law-enforcement centers in Lahore, the capital of the key Punjab province and also Pakistan's cultural center, in a sophisticated attack that bore some similarities to last November's Mumbai massacre in India...
...vulnerability of the law-enforcement facilities to Thursday's attacks has yet again highlighted Pakistan's poor counterterrorism capabilities. While authorities were able to mount a swift and eventually successful response - and insist that preventing attacks by fighters ready to die is nearly impossible - the militants' ability to penetrate such high-profile targets in major cities will inspire little confidence. The latest attack was the fourth major one in Lahore in the past seven months, including the March 3 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team and the May 27 bombing of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency's regional...
...mails calling me the anti-Christ and saying I'm going to hell, but we want to make the law just as strong as we can," says Hoyle. "We feel it is a good law. When a person takes advantage of a child, I don't worry about their constitutional rights...