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...Justice Department insists that at least a few of the detainees belong to al-Qaeda. And many of those who do not belong have broken the law in troubling ways. The largest group is a ring of 22 Arab men who submitted false IDs and background information and paid bribes to obtain permits to transport hazardous materials. Law enforcement's fear: that they were part of an al-Qaeda plot to turn a chlorine or liquid-gas truck into a bomb on wheels capable of killing tens of thousands. The men turned out not to be terrorist linked. But with...
Javed, who weighs 148 lbs., started crying. Perhaps to torment him, Javed says, his attackers told him to ring the bell that contacts the jailers. A woman answered the intercom, and Javed says he begged, "Please get me out of here. They are beating me up." No one came to his aid, and the beatings intensified. Javed was thrown to the floor and told to take off his clothes. He refused, but one of his attackers removed his clothes anyway and ordered Javed to run naked around the cell. He did. The man had pinned Javed to the floor when...
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring December 19 No introduction is required for this giant-budget production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epochal first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. New Line Cinema and director Peter Jackson took a huge gamble when they decided to film all three books back-to-back over a grueling 18 months of production, with a rumored $300 million budget and a juicy Christmas release for the films over a period of three years. With no major stars (does anyone remember Elijah Wood?) and a premise that is decidedly...
Agnes Chu said she filled the dinner’s VES quota, which had the ring of truth. She brought luminous photographs taken in China and Italy, because she figured out that there would be no outlet to play her films. Stephen N. Smith, on the other hand, thought for some reason that the bistro would be able to meet his massive audio-visual needs, bringing a videotape and CD, both of which were useless. The videotape sounds like it would have been great, though: Steve revealed that he’s made the “fourth or fifth...
...surface as he formulates his responses. He muses upon his dichotomous role as math concentrator and Jew, navigating between the Science Center and Hillel. “Both groups think I belong to the other group,” he explains while anxiously fingering his Andover ring. “But it’s good for no one to say they...