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...April 23]. Programs like Big Brother and Survivor are not group therapy. Nor do they transmit any morals. They are an exhibition of what happens when contestants allow themselves to be showcased in an artificial environment in which they are likely to form emotional attachments while being required to inflict hurt and humiliation on one another. Rather than ask what message these shows send to their viewers, one should consider what irreparable damage they will, over time, cause to some of their participants, especially as the concept grows wilder and more out of control. BEN ALEXANDER New York City...
That’s right. Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and all those other boutique theorizers aren’t relevant anymore, and war is no longer about inflicting, or plausibly threatening to inflict, more pain than the other side can bear. Christiane Amanpour and CNN change everything...
...fact that the nature of warfare is changing. In the Cold War, most military confrontations were strategic stand-offs between the world’s superpowers. Now, most armed conflicts are ethnic civil wars in small countries. And unfortunately, the primary aim of this new warfare has been to inflict as much misery as possible on the civilian population of the other side, as demonstrated by the civil wars in the Balkans and Rwanda...
...violent. But a majority of Americans still approve of corporal punishment. And 28% of parents hit their kids with objects like belts and paddles, according to a 1995 survey by sociologist Murray Straus. Corporal punishment is allowed in Georgia schools, and state law says it's O.K. to inflict "transitory pain and potential bruising" if they aren't "excessive...
...Laretta, a preseason All-American hurler, held the Crimson to a single run last week, and could be called upon to inflict more damage in one of the two Ohio State-Harvard games this weekend...