February 15, 2008
The 'Acceptability' of Torture
To the Editor:
It's fate that I should have read Darius Rejali's "A Painful History" (The Chronicle Review, January 25) the morning after rewatching Guarding Tess, starring Shirley MacLaine as the widow of a U.S. president and Nicolas Cage as Doug Chesnic, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect her. The movie is a wonderful mix of comedy and terror. The widow is kidnapped, buried alive, and will surely die within a day if a captured kidnapper does not talk, but he refuses to
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