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...office. After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills-or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney on the mountain-lodge menu are not usual ski-resort fare. "Now that Chinese have more money, they are looking for new forms of entertainment," says Yu Huiyang, the vice manager of Lotus Mountain, which opened last year near the northeastern city of Changchun and now draws...
...that’s not even mentioning cartoon animals like Porky Pig, whose comedic stammering, though perhaps politically incorrect, is scientifically sound. Shell finds that the logic of Porky’s jokes follows a human stutterer’s efforts to achieve fluidity...
...section about Hamlet’s stutter-like habits of repetition, punning, and word substitution, Shell makes the (perhaps unavoidable) play on Hamlet being a “little ham” akin to Porky Pig...
...weeks have provoked Muslims around the world to denounce not just the offending illustrators but also French newspaper editors, Norwegian diplomats, U.S. troops in Iraq and peddlers of Danish food. In Kabul the protest signs read DEATH TO DENMARK and DEATH TO THOSE WHO PUBLISH CARTOONS. A stuffed pig meant to represent Denmark was burned, along with a Danish flag. "We are all willing to sacrifice ourselves," said Qasi Nazir, 20. "We are calling for the death of Jews and Christians." On the side of the road, a teenager wearing a blue winter hat watched the marchers. "It's democracy...
...cartoon issue. They brought with them a 43-page dossier that contained the 12 cartoons and three even more inflammatory drawings, not published by Jyllands-Posten but allegedly sent to Danish Muslims in the wake of the initial protests. (One of the images, purportedly showing Muhammad with a pig's nose, was a photograph of a costumed contestant at a pig festival in France.) In December the delegates showed the entire dossier to journalists, religious and political leaders in Cairo, Lebanon and Damascus. Within days, the contents were being circulated on the Internet and condemned by Muslim bloggers, even though...