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Adrienne Shelly was murdered last November in her New York office. It was one of those stupefyingly banal crimes - the result of an argument with a construction worker - that preoccupy the tabloids and make the rest of us think long, hard and miserably about how thin and how carelessly drawn the line between life and death is. You leave home in the morning thinking about the weather, your dinner plans for the evening, the phone call you really don't want to return - and you don't come home. Ever...
...testified on their behalf in military court martial proceedings, arguing that any person, if pressured under a certain set of conditions and circumstances, could easily sink to the level of those whose actions we find revolting. If it were not for the intriguing subject matter and the eerie conclusions drawn, “The Lucifer Effect” could be a difficult read indeed. Difficult, in this case, does not mean that his writing is dense and complex. Rather, Zimbardo’s prose is sometimes hard to read simply because it isn’t very eloquent. He writes...
Second, once you do notice us, kindly refrain from cutting off our path away from your frenetic domain. Crosswalks are not actually street art; we have a quaint custom in this state whereby both horse-drawn and horseless carriages must yield to the crossing foot soldier. There are few sadder sights in the Square than that of a lonely student waiting politely for a car to pause for him on Mass. Ave. At even such tender young ages, we are forced to become hardened kamikazes on every perilous trip to the Harvard Box Office...
CONTEXT The U.S. plan to build walls around at least 10 violent regions in Baghdad has drawn widespread criticism in Iraq--especially from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who thinks walls will aggravate sectarian violence. But the military insists that these "communities," in which U.S. troops will use fingerprint scanning to monitor residents, reinforce safety...
...always salubrious for the actors who play the nasties. Anthony Hopkins, who, as Hannibal Lecter, was voted the No. 1 all-time villain in an American Film Institute poll (and who is currently on screens as a cunning wife murderer in Fracture), acknowledges that "audiences are drawn toward the magnetism, toward the darkness. But I don't want to glorify them. There's nothing funny or sympathetic or redeeming about them. And I don't relish playing a guy who's immoral. I've got no kind of buzz off playing monsters...