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...issue here is not whether or not Michael Fay should be punished, or whether or not he should be exempt from the judgment of the Singapore court because he is an American citizen. The issue is why we as a nation are so willing to accept a means of punishment that falls under the definition of torture. Michael Fay may rightly deserve four months in prison. He may rightly deserve to pay a $2,000 fine. Yet it's not being "soft" to protest against his caning, a punishment that allows the government of Singapore to continue torturing its citizens...
...friend of mine and I spent the better part of Friday afternoon arguing if, in fact, Tom Lehman and Rick Fehr were the same person. Another clone that Deane Beman and the Tour Fairies could be proud of, from the all-exempt Top 125 to the Masters Top 10 quicker than you can say "Q-School...
...perhaps the most egregious hyprocrisy at Harvard, short of the policy that bars students from having pets while leaving tutors exempt...
...hosts were not exempt from family travail, not even cross-country skier Vegard Ulvang, whose love of risk and three 1992 gold medals make him Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...
...place where cameras haven't been--my own life." With his unique claim to the material, McElwee shapes the story, editing to convey the emotions he wants. He admits that he has an "obsession with filming"; he finds it "frightening and humorous at the same time. I don't exempt myself, I am as neurotically obsessed with it as anybody." He ends this soliloquy with the question that seems to epitomize his rationale for action: "Why not turn the camera in on yourself where no one else...