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...First Amendment protects the right to waste somebody's time," says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "In all political speech there's an element of caveat emptor - it's up to the consumer to discern how truthful what they're reading and hearing is." In addition, says Sanders, "political speech receives the most protection of any type of speech under the First Amendment. And as part of political speech, parody is protected. The question is at what point does a parody descend into what might be considered fraudulent activity, in which you're soliciting money under false pretenses." On that...
...always, the most convenient rationale is not necessarily the most accurate. To find a better answer, we need to turn to the previously mentioned war-zone mentality of the stock market and try to discern what exactly everybody is fighting against. As much as we'd like to believe it's a struggle for control of the World Wide Web, the true battle is the one waged against the fallout of our millennial incarnation of the American Dream...
...invasion of western pop culture is also at a representational disadvantage in this book, as it is a translation. It is literally impossible to discern American colloquial from German idiom, as they become one and the same, written in the equivalent language. No doubt Schulze is a master craftsman, but his few missteps in this new volume lead one to hold back unabashed praise. We shall wait to see if he indeed becomes the "new epic storyteller" that Gunter Grass has pegged him to be. Until that main course, wet your palate on Simple Stories...
Despite the fact that Pavlovsky prefers to keep to the shadows, insiders claim to discern his hand in much of Russian politics--the creation of Unity, for example. And it was never so clear as in the highly controversial destruction of Unity's main rival, a party called Fatherland-All Russia, during the campaign for the Duma last fall. When former Prime Minister Primakov, the most popular politician in Russia, and Moscow's pathologically ambitious Mayor Luzhkov joined forces to form Fatherland, their victory--first in Duma elections and then the presidential race--seemed inevitable. Within a couple of months...
...induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory din of a mouthful of well-seasoned food...