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Unfortunately, the documentary leaves the viewer feeling that he’s only heard half the story. Of all the insiders interviewed, not one comes from the Lay or Skilling camps. The company’s top dogs are simplistically characterized as completely brutal, heartless, and immature...
...teams fought it out in brutal conditions in Hempstead, N.Y. Rain poured down for most of the game, but play continued as there was no safety threat due to thunder or lightning...
...local media reported that 42 people had belatedly been detained for allegedly disturbing social order and damaging the city's image. The announcement was quickly followed by an editorial in the local Communist Party mouthpiece Liberation Daily labeling the demonstrations over Japan's perceived unwillingness to atone for its brutal wartime past an "evil plot" meant "to achieve hidden goals"?shorthand often used by the Party to mean antigovernment activity. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau website posted wanted-style pictures of protesters?including of one woman giggling as she hurled a tomato?requesting citizens with any information...
Some argue that the Progressive Puker distracted the campus from the CIA’s brutal history. According to this line of thought, we were all sitting around politely discussing ways to end torture before some crazy radical came and puked in our faces. This argument has some legitimacy. Vomit is more newsworthy than the CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion...
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor...