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Ultimately, smoking bans represent far more than a minor inconvenience to smokers; this neo-prohibitionism paves the road to far greater somatic oppression, because it sanctifies the violation of personal liberty and private property to prevent private harms and freely-chosen dangers. Inventing “rights” to protect—customers’ and workers’ so-called right to a smoke-free environment—self-appointed health-nannies want the power to impose their personal preferences on everyone...
...where every film is open to the public. You literally can't buy a ticket, though you might be given one, if you implore the desk clerk at your hotel, or perform some congenial act on an assistant producer. Cannes is a convention for movie professionals. Besides the movies chosen by programmers and critics, there's a free-for-all Film Market where anyone can rent a screening room and peddle his product to distributors and reviewers. Some are here to buy, some to sell; others, like the 4,000 journalists, come to get the word on Cannes...
...well as a $1,000 stipend. Even pressing time constraints do not justify automatic acceptances when a $250,000-plus program hangs in the balance. Three weeks after this process was first questioned, Rinere explained that four to six people reviewed each application, and that no applicant was chosen solely on the basis of SAB recommendations. Nonetheless, Rinere told SAB members that the Advising Programs Office (APO) office would “do [its] best to accommodate your recommendations,” and Lambert-Sluder confirmed that SAB-recommended applicants were all either accepted or given an interview. This...
...called Black Tigers - more than 50 young guerrillas applied. So many, in fact, that Prabhakaran created a martyrs' lottery. "They put everyone's name in a tombola," said Banu. "They swirl them around. Then the Leader pulls out two names, reads them out and the 48 who aren't chosen are all crying. But the two who are chosen, they are very happy and the people around them raise them on their shoulders and are all clapping and celebrating...
...parents to do school work of their children. When the project is found to be beyond their caliber, they resort to engaging professionals for the purpose, and any number of children get their grades based on these submissions. The practice is particularly rampant among offspring of “chosen ones”—politicians and employees of giant state-owned corporations, high-profile government officials, and figures at prestigious public sector institutions. Gradually, there has been a drastic decline in moral values in India to the point where no value is attached for originality or creativity. Naturally...