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...report from Human Rights Watch examined the records of 65 countries, and didn't exactly spare the rod when it came to stacking America up against the rest. "If the U.S. government persists in its dismissive posture toward international human rights law," said the group, "the international community should simply leave the United States behind...
...nyah-nyah-nyah files: Remember the TIME O.J. cover? The magazine took a heap of flak three years ago for darkening The Juice's mug, making the accused look, um, more sinister. Well now rival Newsweek, which surely didn't spare the rod back then, has been caught whitening--and straightening!--the teeth of America's mother-of-the-moment Bobbi McCaughey for its Monday cover...
...DIED. ROD MILBURN, 47, genial 1972 Olympic gold medalist who won the 110-m hurdles at Munich; from falling into a railcar full of caustic chemicals while on the job; in Baton Rouge...
...recall my first lessons on calculus in senior high school. My teacher quoted a line from Zhuang Zi, Chinese philosopher over 2,000 years ago, which reads, "Cut away half of a rod and keep on halving what is left, and there will be no end to that process." This gave me a vivid concept of limit. It shows that the ancient Chinese realized the endless process of changes of matters and had a fairly good understanding of the nature. As early as in 2,500 B.C., Chinese began astronomical observation and geographical survey, and gradually formed a world outlook...
...rejects a marriage proposal from an abusive boyfriend. Jackson occasionally relies too heavily on others--Got 'Til It's Gone draws smartly on Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi (credited) but clumsily on Des'ree's Feel So High (uncredited). She is more creative on her cooing cover of Rod Stewart's deflowering ballad Tonight's the Night. She directs the lyrics toward another woman and turns the song into an anthem of sexual liberation. At the end, a man joins in for a menage a trois. She downloads her inhibitions and challenges ours...