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Westley Dodd is the man who shook the faith of enough people in the state of Washington to prompt legislators to pass the U.S.'s most unforgiving, possibly unconstitutional, laws against sexual predators. After his sentencing for the kidnap, rape and murder of three little boys in 1989, hardened reporters who covered the case sought counseling to help them handle what they had heard in court. A therapist who treated Dodd even said, "Wes ought...
...Civil War was not just the pivotal event of American history. It . provided a milestone in TV history as well. The astonishing popularity of Ken Burns' 12-hour mini-series, which aired on PBS in September 1990, profoundly shook the TV world. On PBS, attempts to duplicate The Civil War's success have ranged from big-event mini-series like Columbus and the Age of Discovery to countless American Experience documentaries. The commercial networks too have jealously eyed the program's hefty ratings. It was only a matter of time before one of them took a chance on a similar...
...plume of dust, the central dome of an ancient Muslim mosque in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh collapsed under the blows of 4,000 Hindu fanatics last week -- and shook the subcontinent to its foundations. Like the three domes that crowned the 464-year-old Babri mosque, the three pillars of the modern Indian state -- democracy, secularism and the rule of law -- are now at risk from the fury of religious nationalism...
...dilapidated beachfront hotel, he says, "listening to artillery fire mingled with the sound of crashing waves as I filed a story on a laptop computer." On his way out the next day, three Liberian "security" officials detained Purvis in a small room at the airport and shook him down for a $60 bribe. It was pay or stay. "They each got $20, which was big money to them," he says...
Ironically, many of us spend huge amounts of time studying thinkers who were iconoclasts, people who broke down social barriers and shook things up. If Western civilization is rooted in what the Greeks had to teach us, maybe we should learn this final lesson...