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...Americans’ trust of the news media as a source of unbiased information. The Bush administration has, with pre-packaged news, stumbled on a most insidious breed of propaganda: by doing news programs the (dubious) favor of covering pro-Bush news for them, the administration has taken rabid self-promotion to new depths. In the process, the Bush administration has implicated itself in a dizzying conflict-of-interest, made all the more unethical because the scheme, financed by tax dollars, has taxpayers paying to provide themselves with sly governmental propaganda...
Bleachers full, a rabid student section, electricity in the house...
...Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations. But the leaders of several other major groups--like the National Alliance and Aryan Nations--have either died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members of white-supremacist groups in the U.S. at about 100,000. Many more are unaffiliated--which doesn't mean...
...article on the high-brow world of polo players was titled “Polo Is My Life: Fear and Loathing in Horse Country.” In the opening section, he describes being trapped in a stall while his ‘Uncle Lawless’ beats a rabid horse with a two-by-four; the horse “commit[s] suicide” by biting the trigger on Lawless?...
...living with a sick, rabid dog on our doorstep, but no one can say that out loud from a fear that the dog will bite." ANDREI LANKOV, professor at Seoul's Kookmin University, on South Korea's strained diplomatic relationship with the North...