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...Game of Death is an adaptation of an infamous experiment conducted by a team led by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. In order to test people's obedience to authority figures, the scientists demanded that subjects administer increasingly strong electric shocks to other participants if they answered questions incorrectly. The people delivering the shocks, however, didn't know that the charges were fake - the volunteers on the other end of the room were actors pretending to suffer agonizing pain. The point was to see how many people would continue following orders to mete out torture...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, after publicly announcing the substance of a 42-min. dressing down of Netanyahu by phone, reportedly sent the Prime Minister a list of steps Washington expected him to take in order to repair relations. Those steps are said to include investigating the Jerusalem settlement announcement; reversing the construction approval; making substantial gestures toward the Palestinians such as releasing a large number of Palestinian prisoners, withdrawing troops from additional areas in the West Bank or easing the siege of Gaza; and publicly declaring Israel's intent to negotiate with the Palestinians on all of the conflict...
...asking for the donations. Other leaders have threatened to throw the blood at the building, but it is unlikely they could get close enough; Government House is ringed by thousands of troops in riot gear. More than 30,000 troops have been stationed around Bangkok since Friday to keep order during the demonstrations. A similar protest by the Red Shirts last April turned violent...
...considering the potential volatility of the situation. By late Monday afternoon, an army spokesman said four hand grenades had been launched from pickup trucks at Bangkok's main army base. Abhisit has already invoked special security laws and 30,000 troops have been posted to the capital to maintain order. Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said that some red shirts want to provoke the military into responding with violence so the majority of the public would turn against the Prime Minister. "I wouldn't predict the outcome," says Chris Baker, a Thailand-based political and economic analyst...
...Domoslawski's book has been widely condemned in Poland, in part because of Kapuscinski's nearly godlike status in the country but also because Kapuscinski had been Domoslawski's mentor and close friend. Kapuscinski's widow Alicja, who unsuccessfully sought a court order to block the publication of the book, likened Domoslawski's work to patricide. "He wanted to precipitate the removal from the pedestal of the one who promoted him, valued him, encouraged him and recommended him," she said in an interview with the newspaper Polska the Times. "Such things should be published several dozen years after the death...