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...will be lurking around the net for a one-timer on a third-period power play? Who will pull the trigger on a crucial 2-on-1? Who will penetrate a packed-in defense that seems content just to hold on during overtime...
...Roth and Powderly must be content with loaning and donating L.A.S.E.R. Tag equipment, and they are finding a particularly enthusiastic reception in Asia. "Technology has a very different meaning in China, in Korea," says Marc Schiller of popular street-art website Wooster Collective. Schiller sees L.A.S.E.R. Tag as standing in the tradition of such pioneering new-media artists as the late Korean-born Nam June Paik. "[In Asia] it's not thought of as incompatible or separate from art," he says...
...subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although the first movie ends with a chatty preview of the plot...
...kinds.Though Brouws’s social criticism is effective without being heavy-handed or militant, it is not immediately comprehensible to a casual viewer. Brouws recognizes this in his concluding essay, written precisely because of this ambiguity: “Beauty often merges with political or social content, even when those qualities seem at cross-purposes...[Photographs] can beautify a subject we normally might not deem beautiful.”There is no doubt that Brouws’s photographs are aesthetically pleasing: they capture the magical atmosphere of desolate landscapes with unfailing honesty. This is especially remarkable since...
Lest anyone actually believe Dershowitz’s misrepresentation, I am categorically in favor of the broadest possible freedom of speech for everyone, whether I agree with them or not. If Dershowitz had taken the time to study my writings and actions, he would have realized this. Criticizing the content of speech—as I did with President Bollinger—is not the same thing as trying to deprive him of the right to speak, a distinction a law professor ought to understand...