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...which drunk Real World housemates have three-ways in hot tubs and shock jocks broadcast live sex acts on air. To broadcasters--and many viewers--it's the censorial hysteria that's out of control, as when Fox, in a rerun of Family Guy, chose to remove the bare bottom of the character Stewie, who is 1) a baby and 2) a cartoon. From Washington to Hollywood to your living room, the air war is in full effect...
Strolling through "From Eastern Han to High Tang: A Journey in Transculturation," it's easy to lose one's bearings. In the exhibition, which opened at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum last week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions...
That, of course, is Taylor’s bare-bones way of saying that he caught Trevelyan unprepared for the forecheck and stripped the puck from St. Lawrence’s most dangerous player...
...contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused admit only to the bare minimum, and incriminate only accomplices who are dead or have fled the country. "I've never heard anybody confessing to more than one murder," says Gabriel Gabiro, a reporter for the Hirondelle news agency, which specializes in human-rights issues. "You'd think nobody in Rwanda killed twice." Many who confessed...
That, of course, is Taylor’s bare-bones way of saying that he caught Trevelyan unprepared for the forecheck and stripped the puck from St. Lawrence’s most dangerous player...