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...same reason why many Hindus took offense to the cover of Aerosmith's Nine Lives, released in 1997. According to the on-line magazine India Pulse, "in place of Lord Krishna's face Sony and Columbia artists inserted the head of a cat. They also altered the male chest of Lord Krishna to that of a female with breasts, wearing a woman's blouse." Media executives did not incorporate Hindu symbols out of love for the culture, or with a desire to educate; they simply were looking for something quaint and exotic to market better their product, with little regard...
...cerebral." Yet the episodes on nuclear strategy, arms control and diplomacy have moments of great intensity and even humor. Interlocking his fingers to illustrate the mutual grip of terror, Robert McNamara explains deterrence and seems amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record to send to Hanoi, turn jovial and break out the vodka...
...took out full-page ads in the local newspaper in protest. This prompted M.S.U. president MIKE MALONE to invoke the new campus antitobacco rule and cancel the event, sending national organizers off to look for a tobacco-friendly site, perhaps Oklahoma City or Las Vegas. One man's vice lord, of course, can be a cowboy's benefactor--U.S. Tobacco provides significant scholarship money to college cowboy and cowgirl athletes. Meanwhile, football season has been enthusiastically greeted by Malone, despite the beery atmosphere that tends to accompany the games...
...Good lord. He bites, he bullies a near pensioner, he kicks in the worst possible place. This may be a dangerous thing to say, but what a sissy...
...first few minutes, the words were right, the tone confessional. He knew what he had to say, and he was choking out an apology of sorts, though he never used the word. And I was with him. I could only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers...