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...this issue. As the last of about six liberals in the United States (and, yes, we're all in the media), I continue to assert that there is no reliable evidence proving that entertainment impels kids to commit violence. If that melancholy proposal were true, violent crime would be rampant in Japan and Hong Kong, where the most violent films are produced (Japan also makes, in great quantities, violent cartoons and gaudily sexy films); yet both places have low juvenile crime rates. One would thus have to argue that American children are more susceptible to violent entertainment - that they...
While U.S. businesses are busy trying to capture the country's 1.3 billion wallets, America's evangelists are out to snare Chinese souls. Their spiritual quest couldn't come at a more opportune time. The decay of communism, combined with rising unemployment and rampant consumerism, has kindled a religious revival in China. Some Chinese, many elderly and disenfranchised, have taken to Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation group that spooked the nation's leadership by quietly mobilizing more than 10,000 people for a mass protest in Beijing last year. Other seekers of spirituality, mostly younger and more attuned to Western...
...this in the face of rampant corruption and greed. Last year, Nigerian senators spent much of their time gaining access to government coffers to buy furniture for their state-bought private homes. Senators ignored an approved cap of $35,000 and took $50,000 - all of it in cash. The third most-senior member of the government was just impeached for pocketing $350,000 for his furniture - and a $200,000 holiday bonus...
...said that rampant cases of rape and sexual promiscuity have left Africa decimated, with AIDS the leading cause of death on the continent...
Larry Ellison's enemies were gleefully talking trash last week. Reports were rampant that Ellison, the flamboyant CEO of softwaremaker Oracle, had hired private investigators to peruse the garbage of groups defending his archrival Microsoft in its antitrust case. Reporters descended on Larryland, as the company's Redwood Shores, Calif., campus is called, anticipating Larrygate...