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PBS argues that its documentary and public-service work is very relevant. And it argues that its tame entertainment programming is valuable because it's free and uncommercial. But tax money aside, nothing is free here--just look at the pledge drives, the corporate crypto ads, and the costume dramas...
Instead, in a nation rife with corruption, Lula is known for his probity: The main reason he's ahead in the polls is his pledge to add a sorely lacking social-justice component to the capitalist project. He'd start, he says, with a crackdown on Brazil's epic tradition...
Last year, they made good on their pledge to bring Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood. During a rowdy ceremony in a campus lecture hall, Wood won a chicken-wing-eating contest and took home the Lampoon’s “Best Actor of All Timeâ?...
Then, in one last spectacular test of his faith, God directs Abraham to offer up "your son, your only one, whom you love, your Isaac" as a human sacrifice. With an obedience that has troubled modern thinkers from Kierkegaard ("Though Abraham arouses my admiration, he at the same time appalls...
For all his "get tough on crime'' talk, Silvio Berlusconi's overhaul of Italy's justice system is remarkably sensitive to defendants' rights. The billionaire Prime Minister has pushed through new laws that ease penalties on fraud cases and require judges to toss out evidence gathered abroad if it has...