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ACROSS
1 Back talk
5 Hurl
10 Prophetic sign
14 Bird's crop
15 Adolescent years
16 Miles of Hollywood
17 Dynamic starter?
18 Page of song
19 Merit
20 Letter holder
22 Set in operation
24 Spanish article
25 Fashionably
27 Colorado ski resort
30 TV producer Leonard
31 Light gas
32 Coined money
33 Needlefish
36 Long-time seafarer
37 More blunt
38 Follies man Ziegfeld
39 Printer fluid
40 Sporty Toyotas
41 Regrets bitterly
42 Small craft operator
44 Lightweight wood
45 Most clever
47 Butter serving
48 Throngs
49 Abstain from in protest
53 Field measure
54 Long-tailed parrot
57 Whisker
58 Flightless bird
59 Cognizant
60 Sicilian volcano
61 Gloomy aura
62 More recent
63 People in general
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1 Swindle
2 Region
3 New Delhi wrap
4 Puffed up
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5 Proofreader's catches
6 Act of deception
7 Furrow
8 Ex-Giant Mel
9 Harmful fibs
10 Carry to excess
11 Significant
12 Swashbuckler Flynn
13 Child's caregiver
12 voyage!
12 Below
15 For that reason
16 Calculate
17 Opposed
18 Penn or Young
19 Patronage funding
19 Involuntary contractions
32 Distinguished political leader
34 Pub servings
35 Diva Ponselle
37 Sudden outpouring
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle
41 Toothed wheel mechanism
43 Trying experience
44 Reddish brown horse
45 Keen
46 Ice cream flavor
47 Tyrone of film
49 Naked
50 Solemn promise
51 Fork prong
52 Busboy's carrier
55 Wonderment
56 Crow's call
Display of torture instruments turns stomachs of some visitors
SAN FRANCISCO — A guillotine, a "knee splitter" and a spiked chair from the Spanish Inquisition are among more than 100 instruments of torture displayed in the first U.S. exhibit of gruesome tools used by authorities since the 1500s to subjugate their people.
The Associated Press
Human rights groups hope visitors will see that many of the instruments being exhibited in the Herbst International Exhibition Hall at the Presidio of San Francisco are the originals used to humiliate, torture and kill, and that other often undetectable forms of torture are still used today, including beating, electric shock, water submersion and rape.
Cosette Thompson, western regional director of Amnesty International USA, said torture was not isolated to medieval times.
"Torture still exists and is being used in 150 countries around the world," she said.
Although no numbers estimating how many people are tortured each year, deaths have occurred recently in more than 80 countries because of such treatment. Amnesty International says.
Visitor Jeanine Gore covered her mouth as she peered into a glass case enclosing two medieval iron chastity belts — one lined with sharp teeth — designed to "protect" women from sexual encounters.
"I think it's atrocious. It seems like there was a great hatred against women," she said.
Joe Duffy, Hollywood, Fla., and his 13-year-old son, Michael Harding, were particularly taken by the nails and needles once poked through the tongues of those who uttered curse words or blasphemous statements.
As shown in engravings and paintings, the saw was used to torture homosexuals. It also was widely used to kill people for crimes ranging from witchcraft to military disobedience.
The one instrument Gore couldn't stomach was a tool still commonly found in American sheds and garages — a two-handed crosscut saw.
"There were some sick people back then, and from what you hear, everybody got a kick out of it," Duffy said. "Who engineered this stuff?"
Medieval authorities put a lot of thought and work into devising the torture devices, many of
"While Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel, we were doing such things. This exhibit is in order so that this will not be repeated."
Aldo Migiorini exhibit curator from the Criminal Medieval Museum of San Gimignano
which were designed specifically to torture women, said exhibit curator Aldo Migliorini, from the Criminal Medieval Museum of San Gimignano near Siena. Italy.
Notaries documented the punishment, and doctors were often present to assess the pain and the condition of the accused.
"While Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel, we were doing such things," Migliorini said. "This exhibit is in order so that this will not be repeated."
Some were meant for public humiliation as well as physical and psychological torture.
The garrote, a device with a sharp metal tip that screws into the back of the neck, was the official instrument of capital punishment in Spain until 1975, when the last person to be executed was a young student later found to be innocent. The country eventually abolished the death penalty, partly because of that mistake.
The display also includes torture devices from recent years.
Another device, called the pole, was used as recently as two years ago to impale people in the Balkan wars, said exhibition assistant Valentina Pogher.
"After this exhibit you feel so without power," she said.
The Presidio exhibit is drawing about 100 visitors a day, curators say, and will run through Oct. 14.
The exhibit is making its first U.S. appearance after traveling for the past 12 years through Japan, Mexico, Argentina and Europe,
BY RANDY REGIER
GONGFARMER
'Othello' star tries to remain diverse as career blossoms
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mekhi Phifer is Odin James in the new movie O — as in Othello — making the 26-year-old the latest young actor to bring a complex Shakespearean character into modern times.
Phifer knew Othello because it was required reading in high school. At the time, of course, he had no idea he would someday play the lead, or that he'd even be an actor. Now he sees it as "a dream role — especially as an African-American actor being allowed to do a full range of emotions as a real person instead of a stereotypical 'black' character."
$O$, which also stars Josh Hartnett and Julia Stiles, was directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
Phifer, a New York native who lives in Los Angeles, wants to break stereotypes. Not being pigeonholed is what will ensure his longevity in Hollywood, he says.
He says he weighs carefully the characters he plays, including parts in the upcoming sci-fi action film Impostor, the remake of the 1971 James Caan-Billy Dee Williams made-for-TV movie Brian's Song and Paid in Full about Harlem gangsters—to make sure they show his range.
But the role Phifer clearly relishes is being single dad to his 2-year-old son, Omikaye.
"We have fun," he said. "I'm a grown man, but I have my toys, and I play with Omikaye. We have dune buggies — with seat belts — and we go through the park. We have fun in the pool. We go to Gymboree."
Since your first acting job in 1995's Clockers, you've worked nonstop. What's your long-term goal?
Phifer: I want to secure my future so the money is there so I can delive into family life and settle down. I want to have more kids — maybe five. A successful acting career will allow me to do things like go to parent-teacher conferences.
Is there one "dream part" out there for you?
"I'm a grown man, but I have my toys, and I play with Omikaye. We have dune buggies — with seat belts — and we go through the park. We have fun in the pool. We go to Gymboree."
Mekhi Phifer actor
Phifer: I love Marvin Gaye, and I'd love to portray him.
O was finished in 1999, but the release was pushed back several times because of the teen violence. What do you think about the delays?
Phifer It's actually a blessing in disguise because there is so much publicity and awareness for this small, indie movie. And I could understand that Miramax didn't want to seem as if it was capitalizing on others' misfortune after the Columbine and San Diego shootings. But, at the end of the day, this is the story of Othello. It's not a new story, if there's a gripe with the story, you've got to take it up with Shakespeare.
Do you see Odin as a hero or a villain?
Are you any good at basketball?
Phifer I can't say he's a straight hero because he's a human being, a good person and great at basketball, but he doesn't really do anything heroic.
Phifer: I can play a little ball, but I haven't played in years, and I can't watch it on TV because I can't sit still that long. But there was no stunt double in the movie, that's me. I'm 5-foot-11 — I think the same as Allen Iverson.
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