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Though the Taser has been around for more than 30 years, the brand-name stun gun gained new notoriety last month when Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old student, scuffled with University of Florida police and uttered his now infamous entreaty "Don't tase me, bro!" - just moments before he, in fact, got tased. The rather dramatic incident, captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube, spawned a catchy new anti-establishment anthem, picked up and repeated mostly by college students. But it has also renewed questions about whether Tasers pose any danger, and whether the police are using them...
...gradient of objectification that occurs regularly in society—involving both men and women. Movies, ads, casual flirting—all can sometimes involve an element of objectification in how we look at others, but that does not mean they are always inherently harmful. MacKinnon’s brand of feminism is of that tired sort that presumes women lack autonomy of any sort when it comes to sex. She is joined by feminists like former Harvard Law Professor Susan Estrich, whose book “Real Rape” essentially suggested that women are always coerced into...
...hesitate to even dignify such clearly ignorant rhetoric with a response, but I fear the profound implications that can and often do materialize from the repeated misconceptions heralded by Horowitz’s brand of “awareness.” Sadly, such a notion of “enlightenment” seeks to teach the academic left lessons such as, “There is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists.” As Sa’ed Atshan, a Palestinian citizen and head teaching fellow for Government...
...glossy surface of mass-produced bond paper.The novel is framed as the journal entries and correspondences of forty-something Staples employee Roger Thorpe. The office supply megastore is not an unusual choice for Coupland, who has made it a signature of his work to poke fun at the ubiquitous brand names that have swallowed the American landscape. (It will hardly be surprising if Coupland’s next venture is a “Grapes of Wrath”-like epic in which the smartass owners of a family business come to grips with a new Wal-Mart in town...
...ensemble aims to set itself apart from popular conceptions of traditional Asian music. “We’re a very special group,” says percussionist and music director Il-Ryun Chung. “There is no existing repertoire, so we are playing mostly brand new songs. For Asian instruments, it’s one of the first attempts to try this.”PLAYING A RUBBER BAND“Each one has a distinctive character,” says Jocelyn Clark, the founder of IIIZ+, of the zithers. “What I like...