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...Jong Il's North Korea. Even in liberal Denmark, at the center of the row over the cartoons of the Prophet, you can do jail time for publicly "ridiculing or insulting" any recognized community's religious beliefs. That's the problem with free speech: the principle is fine, the application is very tricky, and never more so than in the age of cultural rage. Statutes writ in black and white transmute to a fog of grays upon contact with the passions of competing groups and the difficulties of balancing individual conscience against social cohesion. Some limits, such as libel laws...
...yeah. I definitely had some guys walk away, who had been hitting really hard on me. I said sure, and they said, "What?" and turned around and walked the other way. Because it was all just bravado. Which was fine, because I didn't care. It was very interesting; it was kind of an interesting lesson in gender dynamics, on sort of a vast scale. It was interesting to watch different kinds of guys you would not have expected to behave terribly, behave terribly. Guys you would have expected to behave terribly, behaving like wonderful people, who had some different...
...Canadian team. "There's a lot of body contact on the boards. Is it dirty? It borders on it." Says Canadian defenseman Colleen Sostorics in response: "I don't think it's taught. It's not what we focus on, but if that's how she feels, that's fine. We never want to lose to them, so we always want to play our hardest, and I would agree we do whatever it takes to get a goal. I think that's a great, admirable trait in a hockey team...
...perhaps Hamas, if it wants to stay in Russia's good graces, should learn from this pattern. Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder - so if you can view the world through the cross-hairs of Putin's myopic lens, you'll do just fine...
...showed me the questionnaire and I thought it was a fine idea,” Kidd wrote...