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...sentiment. That “Inglourious Basterds” would attract great debate is unsurprising. Director Quentin Tarantino, the enfant terrible of Hollywood, has always attracted criticism for the violence and racism with which his characters go about their lives. World War Two era France, the setting for his latest film, brings with it inherent controversy. This is only strengthened by a cast of characters that includes a Nazi Jew-Hunter, a Jewish fugitive intent on exacting revenge on her German oppressors, and a battalion of Jewish soldiers whose sole purpose is to kill (and scalp) as many Nazi soldiers...
torture • latest euphemism for - "aggressive interrogation" - is one-upped by "an escalating series of coercive methods" • the Onion questions whether using a minotaur to gore detainees is a form of • Tom Tomorrow points out the grotesquerie of U.S. citizens refusing to acknowledge the commission of in their name...
...stained-glass lighting within the arched-ceiling architecture is not enough to put the fear of God into trespassers, the not-so-subtle security will keep them away. That has been a feature of the mausoleum long before its latest celebrity client. Family members and plot holders must pass through guards or security camera-manned doors in order to visit loved ones in the structure. Curious wandering is forbidden. Roger Sinclair, 77, a historian of cemeteries who has bought a plot for himself in the Great Mausoleum, was not made to feel welcome, even as a future occupant. Says Sinclair...
...consistent news item that seems to have been going on at Princeton (besides budget cuts) is that sketchy men have been exposing themselves to women on campus. In fact, it’s happened four times since mid-spring, and the police have arrested two men so far. The latest incident happened at 10:30 p.m. on August 1, when a female visitor was stopped by a man asking for directions, and as she gave directions, she noticed he was exposing himself. April and May saw randos masturbating and exposing themselves on campus as well...
Could Afghanistan's opium boom be over? Perhaps. According to the latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, opium cultivation has crashed in just one year, with prices at their lowest level since the late 1990s. "The bottom is starting to fall out of the Afghan opium market," says Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the agency, which released its annual opium survey on Sept...