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...hell); and as a U.S. citizen, I am upset and find it morally unacceptable that inhuman acts are committed in our country's name. Salem Samra, M.D. New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. The detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut this abomination down before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years ago. Ken Keaton Lauderhill, Florida, U.S. Although...
...detentions at Gitmo are immoral, illegal by international standards and profoundly un-American. It's time to shut down this abomination before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and promptly release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years...
...killer and watch his blood trace a slimy path across the floor." The fights he gets into are manuals for barroom brawlers. Here's a how-to from My Gun Is Quick: "I jammed four big, stiff fingers into his gut right above the navel and he snapped shut like a jackknife. I opened him up again with an openhanded slap that left a blush across his mouth that was going to stay for a while." Mike unholsters his .45 and "just for effect I stuck it up against his forehead and thumbed back the hammer. It made a sharp...
...Some things Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides kept from the book: a secret message from a dead woman; a scene where Mike slams a desk drawer shut on the fingers of a suspect; the slapping around of an Athletic Club guard; and the ultimate villain (who goes up in flames). But they changed the Mafia to an, I don't know, atomic-weapons gang. It's as if the Rosenbergs didn't give the Russians the plans for a bomb but the bomb itself. They also perverted the relationship of Hammer and his police buddy, Pat Chambers. Wesley Addy...
...slowly cut off from the rest of the country. He did, however, have a huge advantage. He was hit close to Mount Lebanon Hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Just 1 kilometer from Hizbollah headquarters, this private hospital has stayed open when most of the businesses around have shut down...