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...board of censors is no longer made up of policemen, as it was in the past. In fact, Nonzee himself is on the board now, so he is hoping to get away with more. "Everybody in Thailand is having sex everyday," he says, "yet nobody wants to confront it openly, talk about it openly. It's people's hypocrisy that makes it taboo. We need to be more honest about sex. It's not a crime." In addition, Nonzee is not throwing away any stuff too steamy for local consumption. "I'll do two versions of this movie," he grins...
...crimes trial the one the nation must confront before it is able to move on? You wrote previously that the real challenge for Serbs will be to confront what was perpetrated in their name over the past decade...
...fact remains there is no way to curb greenhouse gas output without changing current patterns of corporate and even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third...
...these images of a kind of animal holocaust have generated a lot of unease. And of course you have to confront the reality that all of these animals would have been slaughtered anyway, at some point, to get them to your dinner table. So it's certainly making people think about what and how they eat. For the farming communities, the trauma has been the deepest. They're paralyzed, depressed. Suicides are up. By some estimates, almost one third of all livestock farmers will quit after this. Farmers are a tiny proportion of the British population, but England feels very...
Your description of the deplorable situation in Afghanistan's refugee camps stunned me [WORLD, March 5]. In addition to suffering the effects of a three-year drought and U.N. sanctions, Afghans must confront human-rights abuses and appalling treatment of women. Given these factors, why should the world fail to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan just because it houses a hated enemy of the West? To hell with Osama bin Laden. We cannot justify victimizing millions because of one terrorist. We must help the Afghans, and we will. SAVI MULL Lucknow, India...