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...English officials investigating a crime in a small town sometimes perform mass screenings in which thousands of people are asked to surrender a mouth swab full of DNA. The law gives anyone the right to decline, but as residents of Lawrence, Mass., are learning, no law can prevent the slit-eyed look police give a person who actually chooses to exercise that right. "There is no such thing as a technology like this without an ideology of surveillance and control behind it," says Bereano...
Charismatic and brilliant, Laudor saw his daily struggle as a war of TV channels. There was the Suicide Channel, with its images of slit wrists, Nazis, himself falling out of a window, and then there was the Calm Station, a cabin in the Alps, green pastures, still waters, souls restored. Both occupied the screen simultaneously, and sometimes it was only with the greatest of efforts that he could relegate the extreme visions to a corner, reduced, as it were, to a picture-in-picture presence, with reality flickering in the middle. Once Laudor could count on his father Charles...
...will never know why. Yet who can ever fathom the evil that men do. We stand disbelieving before genocide, when women's throats are slit with sharp palm leaves, when children's heads are smashed against tree trunks, when men are slaughtered with the crack of a hoe. These things happened every day in Cambodia for 3 1/2 terrible years, and when the world learned of it, people could only respond with dumb horror...
Romance, it seems, won't be fleeting. While some may be tempted to write off the move toward adornment as a mere function of the blooming economy, it's important to remember that prosperity has been ours for some time. Last fall's stilettos and minis slit to the waist presented a crude, aggressive sexuality women chose largely to ignore. These were clothes, it seemed, for the woman always carrying around an extra ice pick in her purse, not the one just hoping for a lively Saturday-night dinner date. Women, though, were ready for clothes that invited some attention...
...scruffy regulars in the corner chuckles as his partner shanks an easy bank shot and sends the two-ball careening toward the opposite corner of the faded green table. A cigarette-choked cackle from Mike, the manager of the place, rumbles into the small pool room through a slit in the wall of the ajoining snack bar along with screams and cat-calls from the Jerry Springer Show audience. Hazy light sifts in through the spotty second floor windows, but the men inside pay no attention to the day passing them...