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...given three years' probation and ordered to perform 480 hours of community service and pay more than $10,000 in fines. When stopped by security guards in the store, Ryder was also found to have a collection of prescription drugs in her bag that would have made Elvis proud, including Percodan, Valium and Endocet. Her lawyer said the medications were for pain management. The judge chastised Ryder for not taking "personal responsibility" for the incident. The actress was deferential to the judge but made outraged and disbelieving faces as the prosecutor spoke. The judge also ordered Ryder to undergo psychological...
...Hero, a stirringly patriotic hymn to China's founding myth, is similarly unprovocative, giving Chinese audiences a past they can be proud of without making them think much. Zhang concedes that the movie lacks the intellectual and emotional heft of his earlier works: "Hero is a genre piece. Its message is very simple, but it breaks ground visually. The audience will remember the aesthetics more than the story. Its message is a message of peace. But there's nothing particularly exciting about that message unless it's taken in the context of the genre, where it's something...
...once a low-level agent for the Indonesian military intelligence service in East Timor, a group blamed by human rights activists for hundreds of killings and disappearances. Hasan, a small man who on this day is wearing a cotton sarong, tracksuit top and traditional pillbox hat, is proud of his service as an informer. He seems puzzled as to why others might not be. In fact, he says, it was through the military that he first set out on the path to conversion. One day when he was about nine, he recalls, some soldiers visited his village accompanied...
...proud of my team and my running mate Shira and how hard they worked,” wrote Darst in an e-mail. “I’d also like to congratulate Rohit and his team. I am optimistic that he will make good on his promises...
...have had all these problems over all these years, either.” Which problems, he declined to say. Lucky Thurmond—even as the frail old man is finally wheeled away from public office once and for all, he will be glad to know that his proud tradition of racial bigotry lives on in the Senate...