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...Back in 1997, the Court decided that states have the right to remand sexual predators to high-security mental institutions after they've completed a jail term - if the state can prove the offender poses a risk to the outside world. Now, lawyers for Michael T. Crane, who was convicted in Kansas of exposing himself to a tanning-salon attendant and sexually assaulting a video store clerk back in 1993, say their client does not fit that profile. State prosecutors, on the other hand, say Crane does pose a threat, and want to lock him up after he completes...
...store window, set along an outdoor escalator that snakes up Hong Kong's busy Central district, turns heads all day long as people crane to get a better look at the riding crops and kangaroo-hide whips on display. If they looked closer, they would notice an intriguing sign in the window: "Play Rooms Available." For $115 an hour, customers can rent one of two dungeons to indulge any of their bondage, dominance and sadomasochism (BDSM) proclivities. "People come from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, China - all over the world," says Decima, the store's 54-year-old British owner...
...deference to what seemed like epic construction, I had avoided venturing in to the stacks for several months, skirting the blocked Yard entrance and gazing up at the huge crane. But I couldn't stay away long. My Cabot-stocked shelves were not enough: I dreamed of books with titles like "Aspiring to the Condition of Language: An Examination of Aesthetic Considerations in the Aspect of Structural Principles to Musical Problems...
...profoundly felt abstractions of military uniforms and insignia like Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, done in mourning for his young German lover killed in the trenches, but also the New Mexico paintings, the Maine seascapes and the plangent, unnerving grief of Eight Bells Folly: Memorial for Hart Crane...
...public consciousness. Before the designer suits and aviator glasses there was skit comedy and Beat's manic variety show persona. Beat loves to reminisce about the absurdity of some of his earlier sketches. "We put 40 or so talents in a bus and attached it to a crane above the water," Beat says. The passengers had to answer questions. If they answered correctly, the crane lifted them up. If they answered incorrectly, they were let down a notch closer to the water. Of course, the bus ended up in the drink. "We had to rescue them," Beat smiles. "Three people...