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Bound up with lies and truth is a sensitivity to ambiguity in a world of black-and-white dualities: boy and girl, straight and gay. Nip/Tuck is literally about the idea that the flesh can tell lies, that identity is malleable, that a person is more than what is written on his or her anatomy. It also has an uncanny sensitivity for the stormy, complex relationship--like a platonic marriage--between the straight-male leads Christian (Julian McMahon) and Sean (Dylan Walsh). When Sean discovers, for instance, that Christian had an affair with Sean's wife and is the real...
Keefe is right to point out that from a strategic standpoint, signals intelligence alone is insufficient, and that the U.S. needs more flesh-and-blood agents gathering and evaluating information out in the field. But what he neglects to fully address critically are the ramifications of programs like Echelon on individual privacy and civil liberties. Public oversight of intelligence organizations is poor to nonexistent; the answer to the question Quis custodiet ipsos custodies—who watches the watchers?—is, effectively...
...Huck’s adoptive mother and owner from whom Jim has fled, shows up sporadically, but the one direct reference to the eponymous rapscallion appears only on the 132nd of 161 pages. Jim himself seems more like a ghost of inspiration, a whiff of poetic afflatus, than a flesh-and-blood character, for all his occasional poignancy...
...Eating human flesh, you feel like you’re the most miserable person on the earth. But in my mind, there was the idea that my friend was giving me a chance of survival that he didn’t have,” Canessa said...
...adherents did not belong to the human race,” claims Elkins. She compares the vilification of Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged...