Word: bans
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...violence and torture central to bullfighting make it a truly shocking activity at any time, but its cruelty is even more horrible when it's being inflicted by a small child," argues Claire Starozinski, president of the Anti-Corrida Association (ACA), which seeks a full ban on bullfighting in France and was behind the moves to prevent Lagravère from performing this past weekend. "This boy has killed nearly 60 of these animals in Mexico - there's video of him, inflicting death, on the web. We decided to prevent him from fighting in France...
...raising and selling of bulls has played a large role in our economic, social and cultural past, and they still figure large in this seasonal festivity," explains Schiavetti, who says the ACA's move to scuttle shows by Lagravère are as widely resented as the push to ban bullfighting. "It's seen here by most people as an injustice and a mean-spirited effort to impose one kind of thinking on attitudes and events rooted in tradition." Kids, the pro-bullfighters say, are no more exposed to injury in events than children who play rugby...
...McCain's team actually seemed in control of what passes for the campaign conversation. Obama saw his already thin lead narrow in a few places and was hinting by the end of the week that he might moderate his unpopular position on offshore oil drilling if lifting such a ban was part of a larger package of alternative energy initiatives. The week that started with Obama collecting generally positive reviews from his trip overseas ended with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty mocking him with a tire gauge. It stands to reason that Obama will find a way to retake the offensive...
...Turkey A Reprieve for the Ruling Party Turkey's highest court narrowly ruled against banning the governing AK Party over charges that its allegedly Islamist agenda violated the country's secular constitution, but the court sent a "serious warning" by slashing its state funding. Many had feared a ban would spark political chaos, threatening Turkey...
...students have access to alcohol, they'll drink it - no games necessary. "You can't drink if you're not 21, but that does not seem to have deterred [students] in any way," admits Tammy Gocial, dean of students at Kenyon College in Ohio, where a drinking-game ban has been officially repealed. Gocial notes that it's already against the law for underage students to drink, so "to do the same thing [with a campus ban] - we know it's not working," she says. Instead, according to Gocial, Kenyon is developing a student-responsibility campaign in an effort...