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...video to raise awareness of the problem, splicing together clips from shows. The closing shot, from a show called Joking Apart, shows a woman in a thong hung on a hook in a meat locker, next to the bloody carcasses. "Women come up to me and say, 'Listen, I've been watching television for a long time, but I didn't realize,'" she says, her eyes welling with tears. Zanardo says that some Italians have opted out of their society. "People like me are guilty," she says. "We're well educated, so we traveled, or worked abroad. Italy was left...
That rejection extends to Western demands for Afghan women to have basic rights. Listen to Abdul Wahid, 26, a Taliban member jailed for his involvement in a car-bomb blast that claimed several lives. Wahid says compromise on the establishment of Islamic law is out of the question - and to him, that means women would not be able to work. "They could leave the house, but only if they were dressed appropriately. They could go to school, but they would never be able to work in offices - only in women's hospitals or as teachers at girls' schools...
...mountain vistas. Guilty or not, Amanda Knox, the pot-smoking, alt Holly Golightly from Seattle, certainly lost her way. "I am looking and hoping for a positive outcome," her father Curt Knox told TIME in court. "There is the obvious possibility of her being found guilty, but as we listen to the defense closing arguments, we feel more positive...
...Amor, before you get all Harvard on us and yell nerdy stuff like “unrepresentative sample” or “scoreboard” or “we’re better endowed (financially),” keep your knickerbockers on and listen. Just like MTV’s “My Super Sweet Sixteen” made your 16th birthday (where your dad unveiled a doorless 1988 Nissan Sentra as your wheels for the next two years before saying—in complete seriousness—“Pimpin’ ain?...
...It’s cultural, social; it has to do with social mentality. It could be anything from language to just the way each person’s education in the larger sense has shaped their minds and their sensibility. When I listen on the radio I can almost always tell if someone’s European, Asian, or American—American’s a little harder; if it’s a guy or a girl playing. Once you become somewhat proficient at any endeavor, simply by looking at a work in your field, you can tell...