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...most intimate moments," says New York University media-ecology professor Mark Crispin Miller, "and relish the illusion of deciding life and death." But the characters are unpredictable. That's the danger. Fox had a smash with voyeuristic bridal contest Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? only to forswear future versions when the groom was found to have once been charged with assaulting a girlfriend. CBS's participants had rigorous psychological and physical screenings and background checks--said CBS-TV president Leslie Moonves after Fox's debacle: "I want grade-school diplomas"--but Survivor took a p.r. hit when...
...McLennan County, that message shows up everywhere from hard candies emblazoned SEX IS MINT FOR MARRIAGE to pledge cards asking kids to forswear sex. At La Vega, Tooley delivers a stern lecture on the ineffectiveness of condoms, telling students the devices fail to protect against hiv anywhere from 10% to 43% of the time (as opposed to the 1% failure rate claimed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when condoms are used properly). Students view graphic slides of a uterus before and after the onset of pelvic inflammatory disease. At a recent abstinence class for seventh- and eighth...
...constitution was amended to permit freedom of religion. But that's not the same as freedom of belief or freedom from government interference. Thus while China has officially produced 1,000 Catholic clerics in the past 18 years, all government-certified Catholics--including Bishop Jin of Shanghai--must forswear allegiance to the Roman Pontiff. Those who refuse must worship underground, ministered to by fugitive priests. Beijing has little patience with those who say the Kingdom of Heaven has precedence over the rulers of the Middle Kingdom. Peter Xu Yongze, an underground Protestant minister, has been arrested three times for suggesting...
...confused knife-wielding at a mental-hostpital check-in desk; he was on probation because he hadn?t hurt anybody before. And the First Amendment says that even Neo-Nazis must be deemed harmless until they prove us wrong. This being frontier-hewn America, which because it cannot forswear all its guns forswears almost none of them, a Buford Furrow is bound to happen, and will happen again. This time, everybody survived but a substitute mailman, who had an absent colleague?s route that day. "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," USPS spokesman David Mazer...
...grandchildren will have to pay for it, and I won't do it." Voters approved and conservatives cheered, but once in office the rebels seemed to forget the gospel they ran on--forgot their promise to serve only three terms, or to fight pork-barrel spending, or to forswear the politics of redistribution, in which you take money away from the folks who didn't vote for you just to hand it over to the ones...