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...favorite hotels in Malaysia - Lone Pine, a newly refurbished relic of colonial days on the west-coast island of Penang. To the delight of my two small children, the hotel keeps three horses and a small menagerie that includes civets, rabbits, goats, geese and a large turkey named Lurker. Fresh from the wilds, I strode confidently in among the animals only to watch as the turkey's flopping wattle swelled and changed color from purple to enraged scarlet. "You'd better run," was the laconic advice of Annie, who looks after the animals. I leapt over the paddock fence just...
...viewers have no need to get an image of Japan from Americans with a message or a grudge. And if the glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...
Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects out attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...
...Evil sneaks inside, steals laptops, burgles rooms, even rapes. Against such intrusion Harvard deploys police, guards, locks, and awareness, what all of us see as a common and largely successful effort against harm. We glance at the stranger, report the lurker, lock the door. About all that Assassin teaches little. No one calls the game Perimeter Defense or Scotland Yard. Yet our continuous awareness, sometimes great, sometimes less, of external threat frequently deflects our attention from the very real harm now and then occasioned by people inside the gates. Assassin is basic training against date-rape...
...only online community I ever felt a part of was alt.tasteless, a Usenet forum dedicated to wretchedly sick humor. Mind you, I was never an active, rec.pets.cats-baiting member, just a lurker who enjoyed dropping by from time to time to see what the lads were up to. I soon tired of it, though. While I appreciate in theory the idea of people the world over communicating through their computers, it turns out that few of them have anything interesting to say. The good stuff is communicated in private...