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...board, which decides whether and in what form it can be shown if it is to win the magic R. In rare cases, a film's rating has been appealed to a higher committee, the MPAA's Supreme Court, and won. Generally, though, achieving a softer rating is a matter of negotiation. The board tells you what to take out, and you do it. Or they don't, and you have to guess...
...Honestly, though, it doesn't matter. These aren't the '70s, when directors like Sam Peckinpah, Ken Russell and Bernardo Bertolucci had a more serious and reckless sense of cinematic adventure than filmmakers do now, when they took an X rating (as the NC-17 was called then) to insure that their visions reached the screen - and when a film existed only in the version that was shown in theaters. Today, the theatrical release is often just a teaser for the "unrated" DVD, like a hardcover book that implicitly promises a smuttier paperback. It's as if, back...
...tens of billions of dollars to create jobs, cut taxes, and bailout banks is better than the side-effects of having a staggering national debt, a debt which revenue collected by the IRS may not decrease at the rate that the Administration claims that it will. For France, the matter is academic. It does not have the ability to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars though the world's credit markets. Even if it is philosophically opposed to a large deficit, it is poorly equipped to create one through borrowing. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Break's over, folks. That pile of work you left laying around from midterm season never really went away, no matter how far your mind drifted away from it over break. FlyBy applauds you for taking the pain now...while all your friends find themselves scrambling for study guides late in reading period, you'll be loving yourself...
...many challenges face Women's Professional Soccer (WPS), the new seven-team U.S. league that debuts its five-month season on Sunday? Let's start with a hat trick. First off, the American sports landscape is as crowded as ever, so it's hard for any new entity, no matter what the sport, to carve out its place. Second, soccer in the U.S. has waged an epic losing struggle for market share as a spectator sport. The male pro counterpart, the 13-year old Major League Soccer, is growing steadily, but as a niche player. Third, women's pro leagues...