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...episode, which aired last night, Herschbach presents character Professor Frink with a Nobel Prize in science for reanimating his deceased father. The father runs amok during the ceremony, stealing the brains of several members of the audience and shoving them into his own head...
...protest a trade regime which had subjected him and other small South Korean farmers to debilitating competition from rich-nation exports. Unable to compete, many of Lee’s fellow farmers lost their land and were left impoverished. Just another tragic case of free-market capitalism run amok? Not exactly...
...investigation into allegations that aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska had illegally acquired assets in a major insurance company. Deripaska denies any wrongdoing. This is a separate and complex case, but the fact that Deripaska is related by marriage to the Yeltsin family added to the mood of factionalism run amok. Two key Kremlin officials, Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, have been repeatedly singled out in the Russian press as playing a crucial role in the Khodorkovsky affair. Many observers feel they are a cover for Putin himself. "I don't see these folks as independent actors," says Michael McFaul, a professor...
...Buruma also finds fault with General Douglas MacArthur for botching the chance to rebuild Japan on a solid democratic foundation. MacArthur's self-serving notion of the Japanese "as a childlike people who would run amok without imperial guidance" led him to protect Emperor Hirohito from prosecution as a war criminal, Buruma asserts, blurring the nation's responsibility for atrocities carried out in his name. And the war-renouncing constitution written by the Americans merely shifted the highest prerogative of state from the hands of a divine Emperor to a foreign capital, he says, institutionalizing an "infantile dependency...
...close the door on anyone: it was meant to open the door to people who had been excluded. This is what people forget when they criticize affirmative action. They imagine it as a free pass for unprepared, under-educated, poor, scary people from the inner city to run amok and blacken the hallowed halls of higher learning, all in the name of “diversity.” If that is in fact the situation, then who is really to blame? Not the students...