Word: draconianism
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Using the students’ questions as starting points (“Why is everyone trying to kill us?”), Lyman and other senior staff members engage in a didactic discussion on everything from the origins of terrorism to the CIA and draconian war tactics. The President appears only once to passionately condemn the terrorists. “We don’t need martyrs right now. We need heroes,” he says. “A hero would die for his country but he would much rather live...
...let’s just imagine that, despite the draconian restrictions, the U.S. was able to develop a fully functioning anti-missile program. Our foreign allies would object if Bush withheld the technology from them, for the fight against terrorism is an international campaign, and we shouldn’t be the only ones to have such advanced protection. The international press would surely brand him, once again, as an “isolationist.” And, of course, their point would be well taken. Would Bush be able to mitigate these concerns by transferring anti-missile system components...
While the Internet is good to hobbyists like Carvalho, commercial Web radio has fallen upon draconian times. SORRY YOU MISSED US! reads the Web page where the Net radio source iCAST once stood. Like Imagine Radio (subsumed by Sonicnet, which was bought by MTV's interactive division) and Launch.com (being acquired by Yahoo!), it's one of the many Internet radio sources that have gone out of business or been taken over by large corporations in the past several months...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...different analysis. "Some small- scale military people may be involved. But there is a theory that the Indonesian government is tolerating or encouraging piracy to get aid for better boats and equipment," he says. "Certainly they don't seem to be doing anything to stop it." He proposes a draconian solution: sanctions against Jakarta. Meanwhile, Indonesian patrolmen blame Singapore for what they say is a total lack of cooperation. Despite its squeaky clean reputation, they say, Singapore's patrols never follow up on their alerts when a pirate they are pursuing slips into Singaporean waters. They add that the city...