Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show is a dignified call for help as well as an assertion of past cultural achievement. After 30 years of civil war and the genocidal madness of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, Cambodia's very name reeks of slaughter. The West needs to be reminded of its immense cultural heritage, and of the struggle--against all odds--to preserve it. Only a handful of Western historians and curators, mainly in France and America, are experts in ancient Cambodian art, and its fate within Cambodia for the past few decades has skirted catastrophe. Much of it has been looted...
...founded by msnbc general manager Jim Kinsella, proposed a "news exemption" work-around: it would give news sites an N rating, which would keep them above the ratings fray. Of course, to do that you would first have to define news. Is the Village Voice news? The American Civil Liberty Union's Website? The Netly News? We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice). Screw magazine publishes reviews of upcoming adult videos and lap-dancing parlors. That's news, right? See the problem? Even Merrill Brown, MSNBC's editor...
There are, however, minor forms, including asking the Websites to rate their content "voluntarily." Chris Hansen, senior staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, is particularly disturbed by the growing political support for self-censorship. "Rating systems may work, however badly, in TV or movies, where there are relatively few programs and armies of lawyers," he says. "But with E-mail, chat rooms and newsgroups, the sheer volume is overwhelming...
...deal with. Willie doesn't do Zen. He threatened to keep both the bikes and the riders locked up, because "a little jail time" would teach these revolutionaries a lesson. But, Mr. Mayor, aren't they just following San Francisco's great tradition of protest? Civil rights, antiwar, gay rights? "These people," Brown told TIME with a snarl, "are an insult to those of us who were about serious protest...
...supporters were killed in custody, according to the U.N. Human Rights Center. For Hun Sen, the push is a move to legitimize his government in the face of his violent overthrow that made a shambles of the UN's landmark 1992 power sharing agreement that ended decades of civil war. "I would like to appeal to all members of parliament to return as soon as possible to take part in selecting the new first prime minister," Hun Sen said. "I would like to firmly assure security, safety and freedom for them to carry out political activities." So far, cautious parliament...