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...American fast-food chains have become the lightning rod for anti-U.S. rage worldwide over the past decade. From Bombay to Rome, London to Mexico City, the wide windows of the fast food franchises have become something of a traditional target for crowds protesting everything from the bombing of Serbia or the entry of U.S. corporations into India's catering market to globalization in general. U.S. embassies may be impregnable, but the wide windows of McDonald's and KFC are a tempting forest of windmills for Nike-clad Quixotes everywhere in the world who want to tilt at symbols...
...talks about these things, in part, because we assume that pornography has always been with us--from the cave paintings of Lascaux through the priapic statues of Greece and Rome and the fevered scribblings of the Marquis de Sade. But what we are witnessing, in the age of the VCR and the Internet, in nothing less than a revolution in smut. Pornography 30 years ago was a $10 million industry, a seamy demi-monde of adult theaters and run-down bookstores. For most people, porn meant Playboy, pin-up girls and maybe a deck of dirty playing cards for stag...
...always been associated with the "Renaissance" of the city of Kyoto, then Japan's capital, after the ferociously destructive civil wars of the 16th century, when Japan was finally stabilized under three successive autocratic warlords. Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism--Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic--so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely elitist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush...
...about giving the Authority real teeth. It helps that the country's current Prime Minister, Giuliano Amato, was Tesauro's predecessor. In the past two years, the Authority has imposed more fines than in the previous eight years combined. Mario Libertini, who teaches industrial law at the University of Rome, says Amato brought tremendous prestige to the Authority, but he notes that the body took on greater force after it started to levy heavy fines. "In the early years, there was very little use of this instrument," he says. "In the beginning, there was normally just an injunction...
...always been associated with the "Renaissance" of the city of Kyoto, then Japan's capital, after the ferociously destructive civil wars of the 16th century, when Japan was finally stabilized under three successive autocratic warlords. Rather as Italians thought their Renaissance was an upwelling of disciplined classicism - Rome reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic - so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely ?litist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush...