Word: abduction
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...depiction of an idea.” The Supreme Court has consistently held that it is not the government’s place to outlaw the expressions of thoughts which could only tangentially lead to a potential crime. Child pornography does not necessarily lead anyone to go and molest, abduct or rape just as a feigned murder, on screen or on stage, does not necessarily lead to violent outbursts. If the government were to outlaw virtual images of child sex, why should it allow scenes that depict murder, or even shoplifting...
Orders to abduct women came from the Taliban leaders, say the Kabul police, but not all commanders obeyed. In the Shomali Plain, Taliban commander Nuruludah says, he saw women being forced onto trucks by Pakistani members of al-Qaeda, so he gathered 10 men, ambushed the trucks and released the women. In Jalalabad too, a few local Taliban eventually stormed the camp and freed the women who remained there. These were the heroic exceptions. For others, apparently, the profound degradation of women seemed perfectly tolerable...
According to Castro, the first order of business will be to put Elian in a "reorientation" camp to purge him of the capitalist and democratic elements he was exposed to in the U.S. He will be taught to view his mother as a traitor for trying to abduct him to the United States. He will be paraded around as a Communist icon, as Castro has already made him into the largest existing piece of anti-American propaganda in the country. As an adolescent, Elian will be forced to leave his family to provide labor for the Communist State...
...quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York City--that theater hothouse where small talents get big write-ups--this...
...many drudge jobs in my life--doing the dishes, making coffee, harassing office neighbor Joel Stein--could just as easily be relegated to an R2D2-like servant. Until recently, though, the only robots I ever saw were in movies or, worse, in those spacecraft that carry aliens who abduct you and prod you with metallic objects that leave no visible scars...