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...novelty of their schoolgirl lesbian antics - Tatu is an acronym of the Russian for "This girl loves that girl" - has some British tabloids drooling over the young Muscovites. These are the same papers that have also been running high-profile campaigns to expose pedophiles. Tatu's critics dismiss the act as musical child pornography. (paedo-pop plumbs the depths read one headline.) Says Michele Elliott, director of the child- protection charity Kidscape: "It's pandering to dirty old men's images of young girls in school uniforms being sexual. It's very irresponsible." It's not dirty old men that...
...easy to dismiss Ebon Y. Lee’s recent column, a call to “Boycott South Korea” (Column, Jan. 17), as an embarrassingly uninformed and needlessly inflammatory reaction to allegations of anti-Americanism in South Korea. But the fact that such allegations are coming from mainstream U.S. media is worrying. The recent candlelight vigils in Seoul for the two teenage girls accidentally killed by U.S. armored vehicles are interpreted as proof that the South Korean population is anti-American. Sure, the protests have allowed some South Koreans to vent anti-American feelings left over from...
...Monday’s council meeting, several residents from Riverside stood up one after the other, urging councillors to immediately dismiss the planning board’s proposal...
...past, doctors and scientists have tended to dismiss that view as bunk, but the more they learn about the inner workings of the mind, the more they realize that in this regard at least, the mystics are right and Descartes was dead wrong...
...rouse a few roars from the old lions. When, last November, Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw mildly ventured that "a lot of the problems that we are having to deal with now are a consequence of our colonial past," right-wing commentators and historians lined up to dismiss his remarks as "guilty screams about the past." Their outrage underlines the novelty of hearing a British minister even voice the doubt. Ferguson is spot-on when he holds that the Empire is as much a reality today as ever. Between the 17th and mid-20th centuries, 20 million people - some...