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...prevent Baghdad refurbishing its military or developing weapons of mass destruction. The current formula forces Baghdad to apply to a U.N. committee on a case-by-case basis for all of its imports, a bureaucratic process that causes hardship for ordinary Iraqis and has allowed Saddam Hussein to portray U.N. sanctions as the cause of tremendous human suffering in his country...
...protests of the Administration, say critics, ring as hollow as an empty oil drum. It consulted heavily with energy-industry lobbyists but spent little time talking to environmentalists. The Administration's last-minute rush to portray its plan as "balanced" between promoting increased domestic production and encouraging conservation--a portrayal Bush reiterated in his radio address Saturday--may come across as a public relations gesture. Even some insiders concede that conservation measures were tacked on to the plan recently in response to what one calls "arsenic and CO2," referring to the beating Bush took for his stand on several environmental...
Certainly, the FBI did not portray Carnivore in this light. There is a real problem here, and Carnivore is only one of many examples of the need for legal regulation in the vast technological frontier. The Internet technology on which many of us have become so reliant, and which we assume is private, is now backfiring in ways that jeopardize our fundamental liberties. So until I start planning a revolution, purchasing arms on the black market or consorting with fundamentalist terrorists, the U.S. government should stay out of my life. And even then, it should approach me with a search...
...strangeness stretches from the beginning of films - when actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Hollywood stars - to today. In the new Brit comedy Bridget Jones's Diary the heroine's mum blithely describes the Japanese as a "very cruel race." And if you think the Japanese cannot portray themselves as very cruel, check out Teruo Ishii's Joy of Torture films. In these two gore classics from the '60s, victims of feudal lords are roasted, splayed, beheaded, crucified and otherwise inconvenienced. These are not the only examples of cinematic exploitation and self-criticism: in many Japanese movies...
...green arrangement of mini cookie-cutter houses, lined up in perfect rows is eye catching. These paintings—together with works such as “Beer,” “Donut” and “Gun”—clearly portray White’s feelings about suburban America...